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creasing the city's parole, pro-
baton and prison stats by %
persons in the year starting
next July.
Also tentatively budgeted is
about $1.9 million in prison
construction projects. But
budget officials have pushed
aside other major prison build
ing, pending decisions on the
proposed new public works plan.
The pilot projects" are con.
fined to staff expansion, as
follows:
/. A full-time board of pa
role, together with an addi-
tional casework supervisor, four
field parole officers. one assist
ant institutional parole officer
and four clerk-stenographers.
Cost. $83.042.
2. Hiring of a psychiatric
team for Lorton Reformatory,
consisting Of a psychiatrist,
clinical psychologist. sociologist,
psychiatric case worker, regu-
lar case worker and three clerks.
Cost, $44,645.
3. Expansion of the Munich
pal Court probation staff by a
case supervisor, three probation
officers and a clerk. Cost,
$28.8S6.
Expansion Recommended
Last April a special commit
tee, headed by Commissioner
David B. Karrick, presented .
sweeping report on the prison
situation. The report, entitled
prisons. Probation and Pa
role in the District Of Column
bia," made recommendations
for prison expansion and en-
larging the STATS Of the city's
courts.
A particular emphasis Of the
report was on providing more
psychologists and parole and
probation workers to work at
reforming offenders and reduce
ing the city's penal population.
The recommended $l56,563
staff expansion, which is part
of the $211 million proposed
District budget for 1859 now
under consideration by the
Commissioners, falls consider
ably short of the Karrick re.
ports proposals.
For example, the reports
recommendations. according to
correction officials, would re.
quire 20 additional staff mem.
bers in the city's correction in
stitutions alone. These were re-
quested by Corrections Direc.
tor Donald Clemmer. but the
budget Office today disclosed it
had allowed only eight.
But Deputy Budget Officer
David P. Hermans said the
budget Offices recommends
tons we're submitted. in adj
vance, to Schuyler Lowe, the
city's director of general ad.
ministration. Mr.. Lowe has
been given charge of formulate
ing specific follow-up proposals
based on the Karrack report.
Lowe Backs Plan
And Mr.. Lowe today indi-
Gated that he is in agreement
with the budget recommended
lions, although he emphasized
that the Commissioners have
not yet acted on them.
City officials have made it
clear they feel the correction
moves must be governed to
some extent by the city's fl
nancial situation. And the pro-
posed new spending chart
makes use of virtually all reve-
nue., except for a SIS million
contingency reserve, which
fiscal experts now expect to
have available in the next fiscal
year
The recommended expansion
of the parole staff. budget of
ficers explained, is tied to
Recommendations in the Kari
rick report for drastically re.
vamping present parole pro-
cedure.
The board now considers
parole requests only on specific
application by prisoners. But
the Karrick group strongly adj
vised that all prisoners appear
automatically as soon as they
become eligible for possible
parole, and that their cases be
reviewed annually If parole is
denied.
Only about so per cent Of
prisoners now make application
so that the automatic procedure
would greatly increase the
boards workload. officials ex-
plained. Hence the need for
additional members and staff.
Sought Eight Officers
The Karrick report actually
proposed adding eight field
parole officers, instead Of four.
Also proposed by the report
we're an additional 20 proba-
ton officers in Municipal Court
and eight, plus an additional
supervisory officer. in the U. S.
District Court. The latter is
outside the District govern
ment's budget.
/ The new psychiatric team
for Lorton is intended to work
with serious offenders. The
reformatory has had no full
time psychiatrist Of its own
for two years. obtaining its
only such service from the
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