\: S ‘0-19 (Rev.’ 8-20-79) Hinc ae feces td ec ameeem hee ‘expected i in6 mo a sr mm * Washington ayes Bureau)—According to law, John YW, Hinckley J i is entitled to be tried on federal charges of attempting to assassinate President - Reagan and assaulting -.a federal . officer—Secret Serviee agent Timothy J. “McCarth —within, 90 days” of the alleged Olfense. f. The timetable probably will be set back at least $0 days for psychiatric testing. Hinckley was sent to Buiner Federal Correctional Facility in n Butner, N. C., tor the psye Hiatri¢exams. ‘If Hinckley is fo fid to have been sane at the time of the shooting idst Monday, his case would ‘be formally ‘submitted to a federal grand jury .in - Washington, which would then have 60 days to decide _ifheshouldbeindicted. ~ - “ oe “The grand jury, after hearing, a string of prosecu- tion witnesses such as Secret Service agents, police- men and reporters who witnessed the shooting outside the Washington Hiltdt otel, will decide if there is sufficient evidency/to chatee Hinckley and hand up an indictment. : : “4 THERE WILL BE no preliminary hearing to * decide whether there is probable cause to send the matter to the grand jury because Hinckley waived his right to such a hearing yesterday. "Pen days after the indictinent is handed up, a _ formal_artaignment will be held in federal district court here. At that time, Hinckley could enter a plea, if his lawyers decide he should. If he were to plead guilty, sentencing would be delayed pending a‘pre- ‘sentence report by probation officers who would examine his background and make recommendations -to the- -presiding-judge. If, as expected, Hinckley pleads not guilty, trial must be held within 30 days under terms’ of the ‘federal. speedy trial law. But defense lawyers fre- quently file motions that result in delay; and it * sometimes takes many more months to begin a trial. The best guess at the U.S. District Courthouse here is that Hinckley’ 's trial will begin in about six months. ome "s‘speedy@ifal’ nths Exec AD Adm. ___ Exec AD Inv. ____ Exec AD LES ___ Asst. Dir.: Adm. Servs, Crim. Inv. . Ident. Intell. Laboratory _ Legal Coun. ___ Plan. & Insp. __ Rec. Mgnt. Tech. Servs, __ Training — _ Public Affs. Off. _ Telephone Rm. __. Director's Sec’y _ HW 54952 DBocld:32989491 Page 43 The Washington Post Washington Star-News Daily News (New York) The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Atlanta Constitution The Los Angeles Times Date Yf-3-3] g FBI/O0J
0-19 (Rev. 8-20-79) ~~ SPRISON IN CAROLINA | APPOGUS OF DISPUTE Tests, Was Originally Planned as Experimental Center Special to The New York Times DURHAMN.C., April 2— The Federal prison where the accused assassin John ing diagnostic and treatment center. But- ner, as it is known, was supposed to be “the prison of the future.” It opened in 1976 two and a half years behind schedule and it cost $10 million more than initial estimates. ° At the time it was dedicated, on May 14, 1976, the initial warden-designate, who was a psychiatrist, and the first warden had already been relieved or transferred tion of the prison. . Plans for Prison Protested A protest campaign by civil rights, _civil_ liberties, church_and_ prison-reform. organizations charged that the initial plans for the prison called for it to be- come an experimental center for behav- ior modification, psychosurgery and aversion therapy, involving sensory dep- rivation and extensive use of drugs. The critics made these statements on the basis of a booklet calied “The Butner Plan,’”’ a publication of the Bureau of Prisons, other Prison Bureau documents and speeches by Dr. Martin Groder, the the first warden. . As the facility neared completion, the Bureau of Prisons decided that it would become simply a medium-security prison and diagnostic center, rather than an ex- perimental center. Around this time, Dr. Groder resigned from the prison system. He is now in private practice in Durham. Inmates in both sectjons‘of the 42-acre prison live in modern Snits housing 50 to 75 prisoners each. They are air-condi- tioned and carpeted, with recreation rooms with pool tables under skylight domes, and the rooms have wooden doors and windows of plastic, rather than bars. Each unit is named after a university in the Atlantic Coast Conference, two of which, Duke University and the Univer- sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are - within 30 minutes’ drive of the prison. | a 54952 Docld:32969491 Page 44 a. 8, “ . we ‘ . Adm. Servs. Butner, Where Hinckley Is to Get - W. Hinckley Jr. has been transferred for” pyschiatric diagnosis has a troubled his- tory ofitsown. | The prison, a medium- ity facility: eight miles north of heré offJfiterstate 95, is formally titled the eral Correc- tional Center a! e€ . 1 ROUSeS Tisoners, with 90 pauients in the adjoin- by the Federal Bureau of Prisons in dis- ; putes over the purpose and administra- ‘joneration, with frequent turnovers and ‘transfers and three complaints by em- psychiatrist who was slated to become. Exee AD Adm. __ Exec AD Inv. Exec AD LES ___ Asst. Dir.: Crim. Inv. ident. Intell. Loboratory Legal Coun. Plon. & Insp. —_ Rec. Mgnt. Tech. Servs. —_ Training Public Affs. Off. _ Telephone Rm. — Director's Sec'y — * Serves Entire East i The diagnostic center handles inmates ;|from Federal prisons east of the Missis- | sippi for routine examinations of 90 to 180 ys. As a medium-security prison, Butner has no walls or’gun towers and the double chain link fence around the grounds is pa- troled by automobiles that drive along an asphalt road outside the fence. A con- crete guard station at the entrance to the parking lot remains empty to this day. There have been several escapes from the prison, and in the spring of 1977 a gun was found outside the fence. In each case, the Federal Bureau of dowegtination fo- cused its attention on the possibility of ac- complices on the prison staff, but there were never any indictments. Apart from the escapes, staff dissatis- faction was high in the first few years of A 2 ployees to the Equal Employment Oppor- tunity Commission. P i Pper The Washington Post Washington Star-News Daily News (New Yor kK) The New York Times BT The Wall Street Journal _.______ The Atlanta Constitution The Los Angeles Times - Y- 2-3 Date FBI/D05
a 0-19 (Rev. 8-20-79) MW 54952 Docld: 32969491 PF ‘ oo Butner, N.C. (Special) —John W. Hinckley Jr., charged with shooting President Reagan, arriv ere last night by helicopter under heavy guard andfwas locked up in the Federal Correctional Institution. The two helicopters carrying Hinckley and a guard force of marines and U.S. marshals landed on the . spring-green lawn of the sprawling, medium security prison- hospital. . ~° As Soon as the choppers landed, Hinckley, surrounded - rby six marines and eight federal officers, was taken into ‘one of the dormitory-like buildings in which prisoners are held. The 25-year-old drifter was wearing the same blue suit, “shirt open at the neck and white bulletproof vest he had on at court hearings in Washington earlier in the day. Reporters and photographers, barred from the prison ground’, watched the arrival from a vantage point across e road. . Poe Exec AD Adm. __. Exec AD LE Asst. Dir.: Adm. Servs, — Crim. lav. . Ident. Intell. - Laboratory t % F7 Exec AD Inv. $s Legal Coun. __ Plan. & Insp. —— Rec. Mgnt. Tech. Serv Training Public Affs. Ss. —— Of. _ . T.d.ob-. Bn, Fly Hinckley, to N.C. jail-hospital”” ~ Butner, near Durham, N.C., has a capacity of 320 -prisoners and a staff of 200. It was completed | in 1976 ata cost of $20 million. From 50 to 75 prisoners are housed’in. each of the one-story buildings. Rooms are carpeted and have TV sets, and many inmates live in single rooms with wooden doors and windows without bars. Prison officials declined to give information on Hinck- ley’s arrival or the conditions under which he will be held for mental tests. But a Justice Department source pointed out that when Hinckley was confined at the Marine brig at Quantico, Va., he was segregated and held under heavy guard. _ . “ . There are facilities for overtly psychotic or suicidal inmates referred by the courts for study and observa- tion. . . . . a The Washington Post ec’y Washington Star-News : Daily News (New york) £L— The New York Times The Wall Street Journal _____ The Atlanta Constitution The Los Angeles Times He ee en TEESE ae (0 Fsi/DOos
. - > ste @ ® Exec AD Adm. —_ 0-19 (Rev. 8-20-79) & ; 7 a, Exec AD Inv. ‘ . . " Exec AD LES __ Asst. Dir.: “m. Servs. _ FBI. Notice on Hinckley Artest at Issue=*" wnt, ‘ell, __ Yet in almost four hours of questions |_ Representative Edward .R. Roybal, borotory from subcommittees on both sides of |Democrat of California, Representative. |) Coun. Capitol Hill looking into the conduct of the /J0seph P. Addabbo, Democrat of Queens, gi security forces in the attack on the Presi- {and Senator James Abdnor, Republican on. nsp. __ dent, the officials of the Treasury Depart- |0f South Dakota, asked questions about c. Mgnt. ment and the Secret Service maintained |Whether the security procedures on Mqn- ch. Servs that if such a shooting were to occur |4ayhadbeencorrect. . , _— By RICHARD D. LYONS . Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 2— Secret Serv- ice officials told Congressional sinvesti- gating committees today that thé Federal Bureau of Investigation hadfnot ‘given them details of the arrest jn Nashville ; , ; The officials repeatedly asked if theSe- .;_; ; : again they would not have any different . sining - last fall oL John W. Hinckl +, who has protective procedures. re any cret Service was having problems with ic Affs. Off. been accused'o ig President Rea- The Senators and Representatives re. [the Federal Bureau of Investigation and aa ceived varying, or contradictory, an- police agencies that assist in protecting phone.Rm. _. gan. H. Stuart Knight, the Secret Service di- swers to mahy questions. a) ident. .rector, said his agency would want to be told about anyone arrested on a charge of illegal possession of three pistols when a tor’s Sec’y _ . “Our relationship with the F.B.I. bas ° Says He Would Not Change/Actions [never been better,” Mr. Knight said, a The gist of a question asked several [even after saying that Mr. Hinckley’s ar- President was nearby. times oe. “Was there 4 press area out- (rest records had not been forwarded. “At a minimum we would have inter- side the Was i el, and if | Secret Service officials said that before viewed the gentlemen, and perhaps so how di . HinckleyAnfiltrate it?”’ President Reagan’s luncheon at the hotel,” - something more, I don’t know,” Mr. At various times thé answer was that |two meetings had been held with the local Knight told a Senate investigations panel. | there was a press area, that there was no |police, who were to help with Presidential * Regan Says Service Was Unaware _/official press area and that there was no protection, and the with the group holding lier, hi . press area at all, Senator Paul Laxalt,./the luncheon, the building trades unions. Earlier, his superior, Donald T. Regan, Republican of Nevada, was perplexed. Some members of the Metropolitan Po- the Secretary of the Treasury, told a lice Department who were stationed near _ House panel that the Secret Service had “Well, what would you have done dif. the hotel as part of their regular duties been unaware of any incident at. the ferently?” Senator Laxalt asked, . said that they had never been notified. Nashville airport last fat}. ‘We would not have done anything dif- |that the President was inthe area. “On hindsight, it looks like this. infor- ferently,”’ John Simpson, the Secret Serv- Police Knowledge : mation should have been passed,”.Mr.{ice assistant director for protective Deny . . : * | - “The police department wasn’t notified Regan went on. rations, replied. 8 ope P until 9 A.M. that the President was going ‘to the hotel, and that was after our regu- ‘lar 8 A.M. briefing,” said one officer. When news-of the shooting came over jthe car radio we had no idea that the ‘President was in the area.”? "On other issues, Mr. Knight testified .that the Secret Service considered 300-to ;400-people-in-this-country-potential-risks- tothe President or visiting heads of state. ! “Mr. Knight said there was no sure pro- |file, but that agents tended to check a subject’s previous history of threats, vio- Hence and mental disturbance and the isubject’s access to firearms. The Washington Post Washington Star-News ~ Daily News (New York) —__.___ The New York Times The Wall Street Journal ~ The Atlanta Constitution — The Los Angeles Times cae Ve3B | The Members of Congress:praised the jbravery of Timothy J. McCarthy, the agent who Was seriousiy:wounteg==- FBI/O0J | HW 54952 Docld: 32989491 Page 46