w Page 4, The Herald. Friday, September 7, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT . daily herald Ganoral Office - 635.6957 Clreulation - 635-4357 GEN, MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION: TERRACE. 634-4157 KITIMAT OF FICE «632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, 8.C. A member of Verified Circulatiori. Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 7201, Postage paid In cash, return postage guaranteed. Published by Sterling Publishers NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Heratd retains full, completa and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographie content published in the Herald. Reproduction ls not permitied. Greg Middleton Camping in the Kisplox Valley has its risks. Last weekend a buddy of mine and I threw a sleeping bag and a tent into the back of my (ruck and headed off into the sunset. Well, to be really accurate we didn’t actually head off into the sunset, as we atarted out in the morning and were going east. It was the long weekend, however, and we were taking a couple of days to explore some of the back roads and seek a. little adventure. I've done quite a bit of camping and I figured we were pretty well prepared for anything the wilderness had to offer. I know enough to keep all the food sealed up. I don't leave anything lying around the campsite that might attract bears. Tam also very carefully to lock up the cab of the truck and keep the canopy locked as well. I don’t take any chances that a racoon or a porcupine might get in and do a little exploring of its own. I was perfectly confident we wouldn't have any troubles out there in the bush. It was a leisurely drive up to K’san, stopping here and there at the points of interest to read the historical notes about the native Indian history and meaning of the original place names. ‘ Those signs with the information about the Gitakan- Carrier villages and their history are worth stopping to read, but they told ua nothing about the things to be careful of it you go camping in that area, After a brief look at the totem poles at Kispiox, we headed up the road along the Klspiox River, looking for a place to camp. Passing a forest service campground because it was too crowded, we found that most of the land in that area is fenced off and there is little access to the river. We did meet a couple of fishermen, good hearted and gumbooted fellows who had clambered down a bank to cast for coho. They didn't have any fish so there was little point in asking them what there was to ’ catch or what touse, We stopped anyway, just to see if they could offer any information about where to camp. I don't think it was these two who said there was . another campsite down the road. I wouldn’t like to hold a grudge against them unless I was sure. We just . wandered down on our own until we stumbled on the . pext forest service campsite. wee It looked pretty good at first. An idyllic spot with tables andsome firewood and next tothe river too, When we pulled in to park, however, we found it was already occupied, Or rather, a claim had been staked out In the area. It wasn't the bear sign that bothered me about our campsite. The bear sign was old and there wasn’t much of it. The campalte had been claimed by about two dozen | cows. Great brown and white and black and white creatures they were. They rolled their eyes wildly at us. The cud chewing was constant. Every time we turned our backs they - crept up closer. Every time we turned toward them they slunk back. You know how they had staked out their territory. It was everywhere, We couldn't find a place to pitch a tent. tty iwant to ask you, what good Is it if the forest service . lets people cut down all the trees, if they let cows tak over the area, . It shouldn’t be allowed. Latill think those things are dangerous and would have snuck up on us in the night and rolled on us if we hadn't moved our tent to a safe place, the first camp- site with the people in it. . Oy = Peo ee MPa 1 AP ates ‘It's very nice, but do they come in pink?’ OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON PRISON FEAT! Ex-convict admits he wasn’t ready for release By ROBERT WINTERS _ MONTREAL (CP) — Andre Teusler saya it was not a goodidea to release him directly on to the street from the ultra-tlght security of a super-maximum prison. "They're aupposed to give you time for decompression by putting you Intoa maximum, then a medium and a minimum Like they do with other prisoners,” the tense-looking Tessier said in an Interview. “T can’t understand it, they consider that I’m too violent for a maximum but it's all right for me t. walk around on the street,’ the 26- year-old former convict said in exasperation. “It's almost as if they want me to attack somebody so they can throw me back in again. ““Te’s dangerous for me because I could lose my patience and kill yletetateteT oe tarereo" e760. 470,0-0,0,0;%50 4hy%ytatyentgtabataters ale atateteTeTeteth LeseGobegateseposenepetenesecHceieatt toetebetesetegaeetefetegtety telat 1 ’ Fourth part “Some of the prisoners, like me, t their gets outside the cells cause we didn't want to become vegetables. It's not good for your head to watch television 16 hours a ‘Tessier, who served four years of a five-year sentence for armed robbery, stared intently as he, carefully looked over a reporter before agreeing to talk. oo. Soon he was speaking eagerly about his stay in the special handling unit and his earlier imprisonment under maximum security at the nearby Laval Institute and at Ar- chambault Institute, the troubled penitentiary 30 kilometres north of Montreal, Asked whether further violence can be expected in Quebec penitentiaries, Tessier sald ‘“in- cidents such as hostage-takings will incident. “Since then, the guard has had a romotion . . . As for medical care, Tessier said It is difnicult to get and extremely slow when it Is available, . He recounted ‘one Incident in which a prisoner cut himself In his cell.‘He was unconscious but I saw the blood coming under his door. - “A male nurae came and there was blood all over the Moar. Even though he was.unconscious, they put chains and handcuffs on him. They didn't take him to the infirmary, they put him in the hole.” Then Tessier shook his head as if he still could not believe all the experiences he lived through. “They changed me in there, I feel more violent than before. I didn’t used to hate everybody, I was sociable. Now I detest people.” Asked whether he is happy to be 5 of an OS foe II-part feature on prisons eset 4 0; ebelesesetelabecetecetececeneteeaaeeetceeiecnests somebody, But I have my girl-friend and she has helped me a lot. If I didn't have her I would have started ” plealing right away.” Before hia release in midJune, Tessier had spent more than a year . with about 20 prisoners in Block 5 of ~~ the Correctional Development Centre in nearby Laval. This cell block is one of two Canadian special handling units set up two years ago — the other Is in Millhaven, Ont. — for prisoners considered too dangerous for guards working in maximum-security penitentiaries, Josh Zambrowaky, director of the John Howard Society of Quebec, described Tessier’s release from the handling unit on to the street aa “absolutely nuts,” adding “this shows they are shirking thelr responsibility to prepare people for Ife outside." Each of the unit's windowless cella has a black-and-white television * because the prisonera spend sc much time Inside. They play soccer In a paved yard for an hour or so a day, a8 well as apending four hours In a common room —~ although this alten is restricted to every other y. tatatatatatateteMatetetabatatatstatstatatititatstalatatals araTaretenimeree tate, conUnue as long as you don’t give prisoners some hope.” He suggested p authorities work out a -contrict with’ the prisoner upon arrival. This would set out when 4 prisoner would be released if he behaved well and carried out work or study programs for a specified period of time. “This is very Important because the way things are now, the peisoners: give up because they never know when they'll get out.’ As for the guards, Tessier sald they are given promotions on the basis of how tough they are. “The nastier 8 guard is, the faster he geta promotions. If a guard takes the side of the prisoners too often, he finds that his tires are flat when he - leaves for the day, There was even one case where a guard who was too _ friendly with the prisonera was beaten in the parking lot by other guards," Tessier sald he wae beaten and free, Tessier replied no. ‘'They took away four years of my life and they... . gave me nothing in return,|') > Tessier belleves he would have been released on parole sooner if he had agreed to become an informer. “They said if I co-operated with them, things would go well. But [ stood on my feet instead of kneeling before them. “Wheo you do this, it causes problems because they can do things like cutting the quantity of food they ” give you." ; nero be did get in the spec! al. unit was frequently so unappetizing that he counted 155 meals in one five-month period that he was unable to eat. Gerald Martineau, head of security pelsonm said itis nt slandard palley nS, not a icy to release prisoners directly on to dhe street from a special-handling «unt, But this is done when it is felt gassed by the guards on everal that returning the prisoner to “Once I wan‘ occasions, because I didn’t go t my cell.fast :--- mean too much danger that he could enough when I came_ovt of. the - .-eguse violence to other prisoners or shower," . He laid charges againdi the gpiard * who was fined $160 for his part in the maximum-security conditions would _ uards. The well-belng of our per- sonnel is more important than that “Zio these individuals.” Ottawa, The Liberals, so long perceived as elitist, back to their roots. ; aesaye former Liberal Treasury Board President,: “cabinet trouble-shooter and emerging pary trongman, Robert Andras. . We've going back, he says, to the people in search of new ideas and fresh faces and a whole renewal of what Liberalism means-or used to mean-and must mean again. To hear the Liberals talk as they debate over what went wrong In the last election, the general agreement seems to be a recognition vat last that Ottawa is not centre of the Canadian universe. a Nor 1s Parliament Hill the fountain of wisdom. So while the newly-elected Conservatives, driven by the pressures of the very inexperience and the burden of their responsibilities , hive up on Parliament Hill in their cabinetand special committees, the Liberals are talking about getting out into the country again. There'll be regional conferences. . Not just economic brainstorming “but down-to- earth discussion of what they're calling ‘people isaues.” The Liberals are convinced that they let spending et out of hand. g But as Robert Andras has explained, they were acting in the best of falth in expectation of what the economists and their ever-expanding apparatus of business and industrial consultants assured them would be continulng growth of production and wealth. It just didn't materialize as promised by the ex- perts, and eo the Liberals found themselves with a grossly overexpanded public service and dangerously inflated budget, all so carefully put into place with the best of intentions to handle a long