European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and St types August 197 mood elevators routine Many women Given drugs in jail Washington a Many female prisoners routinely Are Given Tranquilli ices and other drugs that Are not always medi Cally necessary and could harm re searchers suggested in a report released officials at women prisons and jails in u Stales reported that they frequently gave pain tranquil links and mood elevators to a Large proportion of in the researchers the san Francisco county jail gave 91 per tent of its female inmates such the highest percentage Many other frequently doled out the drugs to More than so per cent of the the report such widespread use of trans ullfers and a did elevators is probably related to the stresses of institutional life although not clearly justified by data on report link Between and recent surge in female crimes Washington up the govern ment sunday released a report challenging the theory that women liberation is responsible for recent Sharp increases in crimes committed by the released by the Law enforcement assistance was based on a mutate Survey of women inmates involved in crimes ranging from shoplifting to armed robbery and the among others assert that the apparent Sharp increase in the Carter applies a touch of King Solomon Luis following a course act by the biblical character Solo president Carter sunday resolved the problem of whether to attend tin Plains Baptist Church or the congregation Lewt split rum  first he attended he mens Bible class at Plains i aplist then a worship service at the new Mann allow Baptist Cli urch the Small Maranal Hii congregation split from the Plains Church in May in the Hitler aftermath of desegregation efforts and the ouster of the in broiling Sun outside the Frame Sanctuary where the Maranatha Church is meet Carter told reporters he dumb cd the two congregations could be trials up to he Ive got my own Church in Washington to worry about l Hirst i think its a healthy tiling for the Community to have two Strong offers prayers but the split was clearly on Carters As he offered prayers at both Church bless this Small and new he said in the Benediction at we All not out of a sense of Alic Nat inn and but out of a sense of love and lie prayed that All tension might to alleviated and that there might be a Genu Ine search for reconciliation with the Plains Hap Tisl some 75 persons attended services at the Maranatha Church and about 40 were in a Bible ewer than the 60 to 70 who usually took All available seats when Carter attended during the presidential Black activist Clennon whose at tempt to join the Plains Baptist Church re kindled a desegregation controversy last stood quietly on the Church grounds while Carter was leaching sunday but he made no attempt to after the Carters went to an annual reunion of Carters family at the United methodist Between 100 and 200 family members jammed into the Fellowship female arrest rate is the dark Side of women the 350page report but the researchers said theories linking women crimes with rejection of the female role Tail to account for the Large number of women for whom this idealized liberated Rote is neither possible nor do the 197i Fri crime report the latest which Breaks Down crime by sex showed the arrest rate Tor women was up per cent from i960 while the rate for men in creased per among women under the Rale was up per compared loan increase of per cent Lor men the same researchers noted that trends toward liberation and the increase in women Criminate occurred at the same but noted there was a simultaneous Rise in drug use and other major and minor social up ii is virtually impossible to single out the women liberation movement As the cause of the Rise in female the report summaries of responses to a 12page questionnaire showed women prisoners hold mixed views on Bex roles 91 per cent agreed that its important for women to have 66 per cent disagreed with the Stater five worked harder than most men Ive 74 per cent disagreed if i had a Choice id rather stay at Home than have a 87 per cent disagreed that a Job would probably be a 52 per cent said a Man has a right to insist that his woman stay at Home rather than Lake a but go per cent of the White women s3 Pur cent disagreed that a woman should expect her Man to support and 65 per cent of those with some College training medical the report it is More Likely hat Trai Mulliken and mood elevators an widely used in Tome in dilutions As a Means to facilitate control of Lane inmate they suggested that this practice could Lead to drug dependence and hamper efforts by the women to take control of their lives after being released from the report on a National study of the conditions women encounter at 16 prisons and jails was conducted by the California youth authority in 1975 and uts of from the Law enforcement assistance there Are about women in stale prisons and More than in local the report said the medical staff of 31 institutions reported frequent dispensing of Tranqu Luzern and mood which Are used to counteract v immeasurable Impact one can Only speculate on the Impact such Lon term medication upon physical and mental functioning of inmates and the Impact of psychological dependence on such drugs among inmates released from institutions and expected to assume a re self directed role in officials said 5s per cent of All female inmates wore Given tranquil Izere at the Vienna correctional Center in according to the thirty to m or cent of the inmates at the Colorado women correctional inst the Indiana women prison and the Georgia rehabilitation women received the report Tranquili Zers were Given to 30 to 15 per cent of the inmates at the Dwight correctional Center in the Detroit House of the Florida correctional in and the California institution for 5 to 13 per cent Range seven install unions reported giving s to 13 per cent of the inmates the report they inc Nebraska sate reformatory far the bed Ford Hills correctional facility in new the Gorce unit in the Massachusetts correctional institution in Fra the North Carolina correction Center for the Minnesota correctional institution for women and the Purdy treatment Center fur women in washing none of the is inmates in the Minnesota property offender program were Given the Rubott said the following percentage of Lemac in males received tranquil Livors and mood Ovalor at these jails Sybil Brand Institute in 90 per cent san Bernardino 40 to so Pur cent san s5 cent King 73 per cent Bexar so per cent Wes Luhcs Ler 50 per rant Monroe 50 per cent Wayne 80 per and Dekalb 30 per the other jails were not bestsellers f1ctk3n than it Fuji at to  Richter to pm tit Short circuit  Soucek her height problem by uti Lnag the shelf of this Telephone Booth m Lake she is a member of a performing group App caring in the resort a Bola  your a Friy Dyar to the Faaoi m Eton ctr Sam at ii Ltd a Wirig 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