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(Reprinted from The Dayton Daily News)By DALE HUFFMAN COLUMBUS Glenn Camp, psychologist at the Ohiopenitentiary for 10 years, said conditions inside the walls areunbelievably bad.He then resigned.^ * should have had the guts to do it a long time ago,’' he said. “Someone has got to tell what is going on in there.”Camp 62, said “No one would believe the truth if you tell it. It’s that bad. But maybe I can start telling it, and someone else can take up the story.“Oh, I know they will fire me the minute you publish this. I hat s why I’m sending in my resignation. I feel I can do more good for the men in there this way. You see, you can’t fight it allwhile you’re inside.”“Once you are in, you become trapped. You are part of the machinery. And once you say anything, you are put out on your nose. You can’t rock the boat.“For instance,” he said, “one time a few weeks ago I complained out loud when I saw three prisoners being brought in from Mansfield all handcuffed together in a cruel fashion. And in a short time, I was called into the warden’s office and chewedout, and given three days off.Camp is outspoken against the system, against the penitentiary, and against its warden Harold J. Cardwell. “Cardwell came in here from the Ohio State patrol as a greenhorn with the state’s blessing. He knows nothing of treatment, but they don’t care about that sort of thing here.4Guards Hated ffCOLUMBUS Ohio penitentiary guards who disliked Marion J. Koloski when he was warden encouraged the prisoners to riot in August, a prison psychologist said.Glen Camp, a penitentiary psychologist for 10 years, said he also has heard that drugs were made available to the prisoners.In a series of articles published following the riot, The Daily News printed reports of guards encouraging the prisoners to riot.“What happened during the August riot was a crime,” Camp asserted. “And those who shot and killed the five inmates deserve to be inside here more than the men who actually are.“I saw them that day bring out the men, naked, their hands behind their heads, and I saw these poor individuals forced to lie on their stomachs in the courtyard which had been filled with lime, and there were ants crawling around.“I know of at least one man whose privates were injured by gunfire and he had to lie on his stomach in that lime in the blazing August heat for hours.“And I know of one man shot in the back and killed because, Encouraged ’he raised up. I interviewed him once. And I also had interviewed the Neville boy (Wesley Neville), the polio cripple who was shot and killed.“They came in and shot and killed those boys. They had it on their minds to do so and they did it. I am honestly surprisedmore did not die.“The sad thing is, they have been covered in their crime. And I honestly saw policemen coming out of the prison that day, their guns still smoking and smiles on their faces.“There was no remorse.”Camp said he believes that some guards “furnished narcotics and made weapons available to the inmates, and talked up the riot.”“You see these were men who hated Koloski. He was the more liberal progressive type, and the old guards did not like him. They wanted to shoot Koloski down, to make him look bad. No wonder they encouraged a riot.“1 think a lot of the brewing and existing troubles here now stem from Cardwell’s nature. I wholly think that he is not qualified in any way for his job.“And the guards, they are not only stupid and unqualified and underpaid, but some of them are sadistic. It’s the matter of cruelty and sadism that has me most concerned. You know, scientifically speaking, sadism has sort of a sexual connotation.“I honestly believe that when they screen guard applicants they are looking for those with the sadistic traits. And if they get a good kid, and some of the guards are good in spite of it all, you can’t have all rottc-r. apples m a barrel. I think they try to condition a good guy to become sadistic and cruel.“The ones that can’t face up to being subhuman, well, they drop out in a short time. And you know what a tremendous turnover in the guard staff we have. That is a matter of record.Camp, who has his bachelor’s degree from Akron university and his masters in psychology from Ohio State university, said he will retire to his small home, work in his garden raising tomatoes and will continue to “speak up on the horrible conditions that fellow human beings have to face inside thepenitentiary.“There have been five wardens that I have worked under and with in these 10 years,” said Camp, “but I honestly believe we have reached rock bottom with Cardwell.“Cardwell was quoted in the local press here as saying everyone inside is reasonably happy. I don’t think be polled the prisoner population when he made that statement.“The situation inside right now is as bad as it has been in theM(Continued on Page 8)
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Delphos Herald
Delphos, Ohio, US
Tue, Mar 25, 1969
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