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M.ErofSOIiniof.arGOVERNOR CAUL E. SANDERSOnly a few years ago, the Buford Hock Quarry stood out as the final holdover from the chairi-gang of the past. The nationally-known prison authority, Warden Joseph Hagen, referred to the Rook Quarry Prison as “unfit for human habitation.”ocCiMthj*tOitoiwlthat time our Department of X^urectiorei, under the veryand elightened leadership of Colonel R. H. Burson, has instituted, with the full support and encouragement of this Administration, progressive programs of reehabilitation and modernization throughout Georgia’s entire penal system.todial personney at this Center.The immediate benefits, I believe, are obvious. Not only will we be re moving these 173 youthful offenders from the influence of more hardened, maximuf scurity prisoners at Reidsville, but we will be alleviating the overcrowded situation at the Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto, which is presently unable toedmfrmPireP*rrThe Buford Rock — —• .....— - ^ -since been re-designed as the Gwin-1 accommodate any .greater nett Prison Branch, and has under-1 bers of inmates, gone considerable construction work in prder to bring it into line withpresent needs.I am happy to announce that this particular institution will now be the focal point for a new phasenum-The step we are taking, I believe, has both a symbolic and a practical value. It is a further move away from the Rock Quarry days and toward the creation of an entire new atmosphere in Georgia’s cor-wlrwtrirUa:nfendes a new look at life, andof the sweeping changes that a1^ s^;enV atmospherecurrently being realized in Georgia1 correctional institutions.The old Rock. Quarry, now know as the “jGeorgia Training and Developmenthouse the 179 inmates under twenty one years of age who are now incarcerated by the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville.capacity of 250 inmates, each of whom will receive the benefits of approximately eight vocational training programsWe are prepared to implement academic training, and we envision for the immediate future the initiation of basic vocational, social, education, and work programs forslt;hnnitthis institution.Long range plans, of course, call for a total “in-depth” endeavor. We plan to develop a comprehensive re-socialization program whichwould include all areas of rehabilitative treatment such as physical fitness, mental, recreational, and spiritual activities.In addition, plans call for the eventual training of Georgia’s cus-
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Madison Madisonian
Madison, Georgia, US
Thu, Oct 14, 1965
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