Parents sue Jackson County over 1984 jail death
A $3.5 million federal suit filed in Benton names Jackson County officials including Sheriff Kilquist and Jail Superintendent Truitt. Alex and Marge Strandell seek compensatory and punitive damages, alleging civil rights violations and mistreatment of Michael J. Strandell, a 22 year old Southern Illinois University Carbondale student who hanged himself with a sheet in the jail. The case cites poor jail conditions, lack of training, and multiple prior crisis reports, with the incident linked to an April 1984 transport after a car crash in De Soto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Stevens
Southern Illinois
Jackson County
Benton
Alex
Marge Strandell
Southern Illinois’ University-Carbondale
Michael J. Strandell
Jackson
William Kilquist
Gene Truitt
Steve Michaels
Robert Davenport
James Staffey
Strandell
Steven Mowatt
de Soto
Mowatt
Sheriff's Office
Brent Nausley
Alcatraz vs Marion Shaped by Two Ferries of Fear
The piece contrasts Alcatraz and the Marion Federal Penitentiary, noting Marion opened in 1963 as a Midwest analog to Alcatraz, later becoming the system’s extreme supermax. It details inmate experiences, costs, and disciplinary regimes, with experts arguing Alcatraz once held a more controlled, even humane climate than Marion, where violence and gang influence rose.
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Cathy A. Monroe
Southern Illinois
Hellcatraz
America
Devil’s ‘Island
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
School of Penology
Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
U.S. Penitentiary
Marion
Rock
David A. Ward
Congress
Ward
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
James V. Bennett
Midwest
Myrl E. Alexander
Alexander
John T. Willingham
Bureau of Prisons
Norman Carlson
Jerry Williford
Carlson
Bureau
Allen A. Breed
National Council On Crime and Delinquency
House
Williford
Bugsy Malone
al Capone
Breed
John Irwin
San Quentin
San Francisco State University
Irwin
Japan to Open Foreign Trading and Markets
The Reagan administration pushes Japan to open markets as Tokyo prepares a package of market-opening measures for April 9. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone will become privatized, banking and bond trading rules will ease, and the 80-year Tobacco and Salt Public Corp. monopoly ends allowing foreign cigarette firms to export and distribute. Gaston Sigur delivered Reagan’s letter to Nakasone amid U.S. congressional protectionist pressure. See Japan, Page Two.
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Associated Press
New York Times
Washington
Congress
Reagan
Japan
U.S
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Pan
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Tobacco and Salt Public Corp
Gaston Sigur
National Security Council
Nakasone
Tokyo
Costly Illinois prison expansion may not keep up
Illinois corrections director Michael Lane warns the costly building program will fail to match inmate growth. Since 1977 the General Assembly appropriated 452.1 million for construction and renovation as seven new prisons rise, with two more under construction in Danville and Galesburg. Inmate population has soared from about 6,000 in 1973 to 17,600 daily, with 18,704 adults expected in 1986 and capacity at 19,848 beds. The plan aims to reduce populations in Stateville Joliet Pontiac Menard and newer facilities Logan Centralia and Graham.
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Springfield
Illinois
Michael Lane
Danville
Galesburg
Department of Corrections
Lane
Stateville
Joliet
Pontiac
Menard
Logan
Centralia
Graham
Health care merger ties American Hospital and HCA
American Hospital Supply Corp and Hospital Corp of America announce a definitive merger agreement valued at about 7 billion dollars in combined assets. After the merger they will operate as separate units. Exchange rate set at one American share for three quarters of a share in the new company. HCA and affiliates run over 420 hospitals and facilities in eight countries. American produces and distributes health care products worldwide.
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New York
American Hospital Supply Corp
Hospital Corp. of America
American
HCA
United States
Index Area 3 5 Opinions 4 Classified 15 17
A compact contents note lists sections for Opinions, Classifieds, and various features. It directs readers to pages 3, 4, 5, 15 through 17 for the indicated topics and sections. The item tags multiple topical areas such as People, Deaths, Spectrum, Horoscope, Sports, Landers, TV and Comics.
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Landers
Senate report slams DOJ over abuse in state mental facilities
A Senate subcommittee report details neglect and fear in state institutions for the mentally disabled. It cites kicking, sexual advances, rape, threats, and poor living conditions, accusing the Justice Department of slow, conciliatory action under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Subcommittee On the
Lowell Weicker Jr
R-Conn
Justice Department
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Sue Jackson
John Clemons
Clemons
Department of Criminal Investigation
Omaha
Neb
Justice Dept
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