European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday november 13,1994 customers look Over crop of pumpkins produced and sold by inmates at fort la Vanworth Kan. Is Cindy Wilton _. ,. S4s Cindy  inmates who study horticulture run a greenhouse that offers a variety of plants for Sale. Walk keep clean and Don t Cut in at fort Leavenworth words to live by Are found in the manual for the guidance of inmates a 140-Page regulation that spells out the rules and the expected punishment i broken. Violations listed in the regulation include being unsanitary or untidy this entails littering or failing to keep oneself one clothes and one s living areas up to prescribed standards. Included is not shaving not keeping a military style haircut and no showering. Punishment can include losing 30 Days of recreation time getting 14 Days of extra duty losing 14 Days of Good conduct time or being put in disciplinary segregation for up to 15 Days. Cor duct that threatens behaviour cannot interfere with the orderly running or Security of the institution and includes horseplay or cutting in  could lose up to 60 Days of recreation time and 90 Days of Good conduct time face up to a month in disciplinary segregation and lose $20 a month of their institutional stipend for up to three months. Contact Between male and female inmates physical verbal or written communication is prohibited. Punishment can be the same As for threatening conduct. Running this is against the rules anywhere inside the Walls except during participation in sports. Violators can get the same punishment As being untidy. Gambling participating in games of Chance for anything of value including personal services is forbidden along with possessing gambling materials or using recreational equipment for games of Chance. Punishment can include losing 45 Days of recreation time getting 14 Days of extra duty being put in segregation and losing $20 a month for up to three months. The most severe violations assault and Battery extortion sexual misconduct including homosexual act escape successful or no Possession of weapons or intoxicants and any violation of the uniform code of military Justice can Lead to an inmate s losing All Good conduct time being transferred to higher custody level getting a Long term reduction in monthly stipend and being pulled from current vocational training. Cindy Killion Success from. Page 3 there s Little Chance that they will fall Back into old  y everyone is watched closely and if a staff Mem Ber feels that an inmate in t committed to change the offender will be pulled from the program. No inmate wants that since completion of coun seling is a major Factor in getting parole. But Trent in t claiming a perfect so re there Are ticket punchers who manage to make it All the Way through our programs just to get . We can be fooled he said but not very often. There Are just too Many staff members counsel ors guards vocational training instructors involved with each  before entering a counselling program an inmate must sign a statement taking responsibility for the actions that got him or her behind bars. That can be a sticking Point for some inmates who feel that sign ing such a statement is an admission of guilt. But prison officials Don t see it that Way. " guilt and innocence Are Legal terms Trent said. We Don t care about legalities. We care  Tillery puts it this Way we want the inmates town up to their behaviour. We want them to change the attitudes and feelings that got them  but some inmates believe that since they Are in Nocent they have nothing bad to change. Carolyn Dock Mother of a fort Leavenworth in mate serving a life sentence for murder has tried without Success to see the difference Between taking responsibility and admitting guilt. If any of your readers figure it out please let me know she said. Dock is president of members against the Mal treatment of service members an advocacy and sup port group for inmates and their families. They have to sign the statement to get into counsel ing she said. Yet without completing a counselling program there a Little Chance of getting  it s a catch-22, Dock said. Once in counselling where some Don t believe they need to be they can be Disen rolled for not putting Forth a full Effort she said. They will then have a big Black Mark As a ticket puncher against them at any custody upgrade or parole hearing. Or they can refuse to sign the statement and forfeit parole at the usual third to Halfway Mark of their sentences. Trent remains Adamant about the requirement to be a Success on the outside they have got to accept that they have been charged convicted and confined. And they have got to Stop blaming their circumstances on things like an unhappy childhood or being  counselling is Only part of the military s rehabilitation philosophy. Vocational training programs get High Marks from inmates families and civilian prison officials. " we give them options Tillery said. If a Guy comes to the do for theft and we Don t give him any Job skills when he leaves Here he s going to steal  inmates train in a variety of Job skills such As silk screening horticulture printing upholstery and Mak ing and repairing furniture. A few learn specialized skills such As custom bookmaking and restoration of Antiques. Army staff sgt. . Capple a corrections noncommissioned officer now serving As a prison spokesman said that unlike the civilian sector there s no Assembly line production in the dj3. Most inmates work on one project Start to finish Sothey know the whole process he said. And most of these skills Are ones so a Guy can Start his own business out of a  All inmates go into at least one of the programs called details and can usually choose which one they want. If there s an opening hell usually get in Capple said. Employers on the outside Are eager to hire the graduates said Clyde Cozad carpentry shop chief. We get Calls All the time from companies that say when we re getting ready to release someone let them know because they la hire them he said. Overall employers Aren t concerned about some one s history. They re concerned about their production. Will an employee show up for work do they care about Quality and meeting deadlines he said. Some Guys have been in my shop for four or five years. They re so close to the Journeyman level that those issues Aren t a  Cozad said his 12 years of teaching inmates have \