European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Going to jail by charter Jet by Randolph Picht associated press thieves drug pushers and other hoodlums my new York oly arrive in he Scenic vacation land aboard Charl Rcd Jela. The stay in Brand new accommodations Savouring the bucolic Charm of the Shore of the St. Lawrence River More than 300 Miles from the big Apple. They come to Cape Vincent n.y., logo to jail. They ate men like 37-year-old Alan Foster who says he has been in and out of new Yolk cily s Piker s Island ail so Many times he has lost count. I m not pleased about being so faraway from Home bul compared 1o hiker s Island this place is All right says Foster who was sentenced this Lime to one year in jail Lor illegal Possession of stolen credit cards. Capo Vincent in upstate new York is now the Homo of Riverview correctional facility a 700-bed jail that was Buill in less than a year to House criminals from lha United Stales largest City ". An identical jail was was also built by now York City in Ogdensburg Abdul 40 Miles to the North. Both. Opened in August and were tilled in a month. I Don l know what we would have done without the ups Alc jails they opened up Juslin time says Tom Alenan a spokesman or Trio new York cily department of correction. Now York oly s jail population has surged to More than 17,000 inmates largely because of Bee de up. Drug enforcement Antonan says. He says the City is building More jails in lower Manhollan and on Staten Island and is considering buying Mote barges to Board prisoners and adding More Colls at Rinkor . To relieve overcrowding inmates Horn new York Cay Are being flown on chartered jell to Falls throughout the state these men have arrived at the Airport near the correctional facility at Cape Vincent the cily spent $110 million to build the ails and win pay $40 million a year to operate them under a 10 year contract with Tho stale department correctional services. M. Otis Radley a town supervisor in Capo Vincent a Community of 1,800, says the jail is providing jobs and should Lead to More development maybe even a drug store of station. We be been losing our Young people because there s nothing for them to do Here Radley says. Working in the prison is a respectable Job thai hopefully will keep our Young people from critics of the jail which is located on a main Road near a High school and a slate Park included Radley 3 brother Jerry who runs a trailer Park. He and others were afraid it would Hurt business i was t Loo Happy who the idea when it started says Elmer Gleason manager of Cedar Point state Park and six other state Parks along the River. But now i just Hope once they put some Trees in and do some landscaping that it will just be a forgot Len thing he says that judging from reactions during the construction of the prison this summer the tears that a prison would drive away tourists probably were unfounded. People see it As an attraction just another thing to come and look at when they re lived of sitting by the River Gleason says. Some worry that the prison will change Iho Homey atmosphere of the Community whore car keys Are fell in ignitions bicycles Are not locked in garages and people Are Friendly. This is really Hometown says Donald Brennan principal of thousand islands High school. If the prison is going to change things we Hope whatever happens is says there has been Little reaction among. The High school students even though students pass the facility s fences on the bus twice a Day. " inside those fences guards proudly show Oil the new washing machines the gleaming Wood floor in the gymnasium and the walk in freezers in the Caf Otevia. Inmates talk about How Good the food is How professional the guards Are and How the toughest adjustment May be galling accustomed to Only being Able to watch three channels in television. Bull Market for mall skills by Joe press s pending time at the mall has been raised loan Art form by some High school students. But at Youngstown stale University in Youngstown Ohio it s a management. Science the school has just produced its first two graduates in shopping Center management and the trainees Are finding a Bull Market for their specialized skills. Ii was kind of my destiny thai i showed up and they. Had the major said Tracey Farley a former administrative assistant to a Virginia shopping mail manager and one Ollie first to earn a mall since i started at the mall in. Virginia Beach. I. Know shopping malls we
