hospitals and institutions, accomplished some other reforms, but correctional reform? - No, because of low priority and lack of resources. I mention this continuity, not as a personal defense, but to illustrate the evolution of a cycle, - that the time has now come when, given able advocacy, the priorities can be rearranged and the resources can be marshaled that the Governor Bumperses of our country and presumably decent legislators can straighten out corrections with the support of the public. But this can only happen if a strong advocate explains and pleads the case. That is why, my governorship ended and looking forward to some quiet sabbatical years, I took on the mission implied in the chairmanship of the American Bar Association Commission, embracing the most important case I ever pleaded. And that is why I ask you Arkansas lawyers, with the influence of your traditions, devoted to the administration of justice, - to align your credibility - the strength of your presence, on the side of correctional reform. But before I ask you to be advocates of this cause, let's look at our case - as all good lawyers do before going into court!
sickening violence - the raping of children in prison vans on their way to court - the murder of a 17-year-old runaway held overnight in a Florida jail with older brutal prisoners - can there be even a reasonable doubt, any more than when the prisoners' bodies were unearthed in Arkansas? Of course no state can be a Pharisee, proclaiming itself "not like the rest of men." If New York has an Attica, other states have reformatories to which I, as a JUdge, would hesitate today to commit any juvenile. If one
state has a splendid state prison system, its county jails are a mess and its criminal judges go without probation services. In fact, probation is nonexistent or a mere shell in many jurisdictions in our country - an intolerable condition. And it is unnerving, to say the least, to observe the inconsistencies of beginning reform - showing that we have such a long way to go! One state, while establishing administrative parole reform and appointing career-type prison adminisContinued on page 142
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