Page 6 Mike is a slim young man, with straight brown hair that is reaching his shoulders, who (appropriately) spoke philoso- phically about his past. Mike got “‘two to five” for possession and sale of drugs. “My first and last offense,” he said. He had studied religion ‘‘out there’, he said, even though his family wasn’t especially religious. But “itdidn’t work’, he guesses, for here he is in Chase. Although Mike was shocked at being caught, going from college to jail, he reasons that this had to happen ‘“‘cause even now I'm taking medicine for convul- sions, from taking all those drugs”. He added, “I needed a slap in the face , ‘cause I was gone. I needed something to stop me and shock me.” Mike feels, however, that he’s al- ready been corrected. He feels that in his case the sentence is too long. “I feel set now,” he says, finishing, philosophical- to-the-end, ‘‘but they can’t see in your head that well.” The “Effective Speech Class” is aimed at basic communica- tions, showing residents how to express themselves. Roscoe Wright, secretary of D.I.C.E., make good use of this course when Rev. Pickett takes him, as he takes others, to speak to service clubs and church groups. Roscoe Wright wears his uni- form cap backwards over a head of plaited hair. He’s a short, well-spoken, powerfully built young man with a strong manly gaze. He says before he believed in nothing, hated everything as phony. He re- belled against his family ‘‘and I've got a good family’. ‘I did everything from stealing bubblegum to blackmail, (he smiles) but I'm not in here for stealing bubblegum or black- mail.”” Roscoe got ‘two to six” for forging checks and nine months to two years for armed robbery. (In September he hopes to get paroled for the first offense.) Bitter over what he felt was a stiff sentence, it was four months before he came to church. He was then asked to come to D.I.C.E., which “opened my eyes, that I was wanted.” There are also two self-help, i-drug abuse classes, to help resi- | dents get off and stay off drugs. They have had an invitation from Jack Moore, associate director of a drug program called Today Inc., to visit Bucks County Prison to discuss drug addiction and remedy proced- ures. Classes make use of a pro- cedure which they call the ‘Hot Seat’. The resident in the ‘‘Hot Seat’ starts at the beginning of his life, as far back as he can remember, and tells his whole story up to where he started on drugs. Afterwards other class members question him. The ob- ject is to get to the source of his problem, why he started on drugs, so they can help him deal with that problem. Trust is em- phasized. Whatever goes on in class, whatever is said, is to go no further. Gilbert O. Cannon Jr., treasurer of D.I.C.E., has taken a deep interest in these drug related courses. It’s a sub- ject on which he has had first hand knowledge. When he is re- leased he’d like to start a drug therapy center. Gilbert O. Cannon Jr., mus- cular and handsome, sports an Afro hair style, mustache and goatee. Two armed robberies and drug possession, use, and sales have left him now two years and five months from parole....maybe. He states that he was always rebellious, spending 9» months of one year in solitary confinement, and lots of time in maximum security for trouble-making, using drugs, etc. He was shipped to Chase the same day, in the same van as his neighbor Dan Harvey (chairman of D.I.C.E.) Shortly after he started what he calls his ‘‘turn-around,” he heard of D.I.C.E. He says he thought, “Wow! Christian! I can’t go for that.” But when he enrolled in the D.I.C.E.-spon- sored world religion classes, taught by Penn State Professor Fred Stefon, he thought better of it. Gilbert found it “‘construc- tive’; he felt that through it he “could get himself together’, He’s surprised himself since then, by getting up early for church and by standing up for D.I.C.E. when, as he says, ‘‘Be- fore I wouldn’t stand up for any- thing”. Run similarly to the drug classes is a Reconciliation Group which is based instead on psychological problems. Men are helped to identify them- selves, with emphasis on “what they were, where they are, and (continued from PAGE ONE) what they can become’, as the Rev. Pickett puts it. The D.I.C.E. members mentioned that Jim Carden of the clinic staff, a student from Marywood doing field work at the Institu- tion, has been a big help in these therapy groups. Dan Harvey points out that members are presently corres- ponding with the Avon Book Company of Wilkes-Barre, trying to obtain a number of Dr. Haim Ginett’s book, ‘Between Parent and Child” for their classes in child psychology and development. Average regular enrollment in each class is about 25, even though all classes are held on the resident’s own time, after his working hours have ended at 3:30 p.m. Dan, as chairman of D.I.C.E., and the Rev. Pickett are quick to make it clear that the classes, as well as all of the D.I.C.E. programs, are completely vol- untary. Dan Harvey, one-time Black Muslim, has the rounded, mus- clature and stature of a light- weight boxer, and the energetic confidence of a leader. This confidence might well have come after the ‘‘new atti- tude...new change’ that he feels he has undergone since enroll- ing with D.I.C.E. In 1968 he was caught in Los Angeles and re- turned to Pennsylvania for two armed robberies. Sentenced to a five to ten year encarceration, he expects to be paroled Aug. 8, 1974. At that time he must ans- wer to a detainer in Florida for armed robbery and es- cape. He's submitting a petition for speedy trial on the Florida charge. He could go free or he could be sentenced to another five to ten years. Dan’s been in jail for the last nine years with the exception of a nine month period. He’s still a young man. D.I.C.E. has made proposals to Superintendent Leonard Mack for several new classes. Like the rest, there will be no guards in these classes, if they are accepted. A literary science class would help residents understand literature and create an interest in it. Also proposed are courses in music appreciation and photography. The photo course is to be taught by resident George Pasternak. The Rev. Pickett, who praises the excellent co-operation D.I.C.E. gets from the superin- tendent and the rest of the staff, emphasizes that when D.I.C.E. sees something that they feel is wrong or lacking, they write out suggestions to Supt. Mack, rather than try to ‘‘get across physically”. As Roscoe Wright puts it, “D.I.C.E. wants to get away from trouble here.” We want “to get big enough so that will stop.” Another D.I.C.E. proposal now before Supt. Mack is for ac- quiring Christian films, accord- ing to resident Jerry Owens. Jerry, co-chairman of D.I.C.E., says that they are now in touch Raleigh, S.C. source of the type films they are looking for. Jerry Owens, who comes from California, was visiting relatives in Delaware Valley in 1967 when he was involved in a homocide. He broke out of the Delaware County prison. When he was caught in New Mexico he was charged with assaulting an officer, and he states that they also “said I got there by steal- ing a milk truck” and “‘assault- ing the driver”. He received sentences of from one to two years, two and one half to five, two to four, and ten to twenty. He’s spent six years in institu- tions on those other charges and has just recently begun serving the “10 to 20”’ for the homocide. Meeting Dan Harvey and talking to the Rev. Pickett got Jerry involved with ‘‘self-help”’, something he and some other residents prefer over outside help. He feels that after a “whole life’’ spent ‘in courts and institutions,” D.I.C.E. is a useful outlet. He feels he’s now doing what he wants to do. Working with “the central principle of Christianity run- ning through whatever they do,” D.I.C.E. attempts to help residents ‘‘live with themselves first, then with God, and then with their fellow man’, ac- cording to the Rev. Pickett. Gil- bert O. 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