Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Sunday, November 28,1976
Local officials back corrections change A proposal to create a new Washington department of corrections has received the support of two Walla Walla officials. Washington State Penitentiary Supt. B. J. Rhay and Walla Walla County Prosecutor Arthur R. Eggers testified last week at a Yakima hearing in the matter. They were among parole officers, prison workers and supervisors who favored the proposed legislation by Rep. Alex Deccio, R-Yakima. Deccio is one of the members of the Washington House of Representatives' subcommittee on corrections, which conducted the hearing. Supporters took a stand against Milton Burdman, secretary of the state's Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). Burdman testified by letter he opposed taking jurisdiction over both adult and juvenile corrections away from his department. Those in favor of the Deccio bill argued it will help reform their organization by making administration of prisons more ef-
ficient. It will force someone to state a clear philosophy of correction and punishment for adult and juvenile offenders, they maintained. A separate department would give identity and strength to corrections, Rhay said. He said adult correction programs were gobbled up by the department of public assistance when the two functions of state government were brought under the DSHS agency in 1969 and 1970. By 1973-74, the mistake was realized and a corrections division was formed, Rhay said. But it is still under the direction of DSHS, he said. The warden said now is the time to create a new state department of corrections arid maintain the balance between the necessities of custody of offenders and rehabilitating some ot the adult and juvenile offenders. "There must be that balance," Rhay said.
Court drops charges in five cases
"If it becomes overbalanced, either way, the program will be unsuccessful as it was in the past." Eggers disagreed with a Monroe Reformatory corrections officer, Paul Fletcher, who said the bill is a first step back to the old philosophy of hard-line punishment. Fletcher opposed separating the corrections and juvenile divisions from DSHS. Eggers contended the move to give inmates treatment and more responsibilities was a dismal failure. While Walla Walla had a population of 800 to 900 inmates in the early 1970s, Eggers said there were 16 homicides within the prison. He said since then, even though the prison has become overcrowded and is now housing more than 1,500 inmates, there have been fewer acts of violence. Violence stopped because prison supervisors became tougher again, Eggers said.
Heirs settle truck lawsuit A 19,686 lawsuit over a pickup truck alleged to have burst into flames has been dismissed. Larrie Barritt, a former College Place man who died after the suit was filed, brought the action against Sunshine Chevrolet-Cadillac Inc., 2303 E. Melrose St.; Camp Chevrolet of Spokane; and the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Corp. of Bellevue, Wash. The Walla Walla County Superior Court suit said a pickup truck Barritt bought from Sunshine in 1974 burst into flames and burned because of faulty workmanship. The suit has been compromised and settled with the heirs of Barritt's estate.
THE BOIM
Criminal charges of kidnaping, burglary, drug possession and manufacture and being a fugitive have been dismissed in Walla Walla. There were five defendants in the Walla Walla County Superior Court cases. They were Marilyn McKibbens, Dale Davis, Jimmy D. Baldwin, Thomas Philip Spechko and Edward H. McCarrell. Ms. McKibbens and Davis, ages and addresses unknown, were charged in a case that has been resolved in a civil suit in New Mexico. Ms. McKibbens was charged with kidnapping and Davis with burglary in the local incident, which involved two children. Baldwin, 31, was charged with illegal possession of pentobarbital, a sedative. A former Washington State Penitentiary inmate, his charge was dismissed on the agreement he was to be transferred to a work-release or forrestry program, then avail himself of drug-abuse treatment. The complaining witness has left the state and refused to testify against Spechko, 21, address unknown. He was charged with marijuana possession. A fugitive charge was brought against McCarrell, 29, in connection with a Canyon County charge in Idaho of possession and manufacture of marijuana. The Walla Walla count was dropped because McCarrell waived extradition to Idaho.
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Prisoner faces new sentence in county jail A Washington State Penitentiary inmate may end up serving county-jail time in Walla Walla for a drugpossession charge. The prisoner, Gordon Milliron, 27, is one of two persons who have been sentenced in unrelated Walla Walla County Superior Court cases. The other defendant is Donald J. Miller, 20, of Pasco, who pleaded guilty to second-degree theft. Milliron was accused of possession of four capsules of Sinequan, a form of tranquilizer, found in his cell Sept. 30. Judge James B. Mitchell has sentenced Milliron to serve 90 days in the county jail when the inmate is released from prison. Miller was accused of obtaining jewelry with a stolen credit card Sept. 16 at The Diamaond Shop, 47 E. Main St. Mitchell suspended a five-year prison term for him and ordered three years probation, on condition Miller serve six months in the county jail and pay $132 in court costs.
Inmate sues cleaning firm A Washington State Penitentiary inmate has filed a $5,000 damage suit for reimbursement of $700 worth of property he claims a cleaning firm lost. Julius Lee Gillespie, 30, has brought the Walla Walla County Superior Court action against Tyee Park Cleaners of Tacoma, Wash. Spokesmen for the cleaning firm couldn't be reached for comment. Claims made in filing a lawsuit give only one side of the case.
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