Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january Page 3 Patrick City editor tax bylaw change referred for grits throw curve at hardball local before convicts Are allowed on Day parole from Stony Mountain institution they must convince parole officials of their parole Board blues by Nick Martin the hardcase con gets straight to the you wonder every time someone cheeses me i beat him up two members of the National parole Board that thought had crossed their especially since the Guys resume includes killing an old Man with an attempting to rape a senior citizen during a burglary and sexually assaulting a woman and beating up her husband during yet another not to mention slapping another inmate upside the head last somewhere in his the con Call him although that not his name has spent Only 10 months on the Street since the Early conflicts at an East coast prison forced his Transfer to Stony Mountain the Federal governments hard time Slammer just North of where Pete is Halfway through an 11year parole Board members Olga Fuga and Andy Grier made their monthly trip to Stony Mountain last week to judge parole our first priority is the safety and welfare of the general Grier the Bottom line is Fuga although Fuga says Ottawa is considering opening parole Board hearings to the Media and general for now they belong to the who can Grant or deny four of eight inmates seeking parole thursday excluded a the other four asked for and three of them wanted identifying details to be Pete blames his past on booze and his fathers Drunken i never had no respect for i thought i was on this world to raise he denies Many of his crimes although he also claimed hed been too drunk to remember much of what drinking makes me like Jekyll and i can be a helluva Nice person when in it bothers Fuga that Pete is not volunteering remorse about his the old lady has been quite upset about Shes never been the Fuga the family Pete attacked and burgled has slept with the lights on for six she there still thinking about that awful it also Doest sit Well that Pete wont see a the prisons staff recommends keeping him under lock and key until Hes much closer to straightening out too much history of too much potential to blow Fuga and Grier decide Pete needs a very gradual reentry into a society he barely knows a society in which one does As a matter of punch out people on the Street for an untoward remark or they recommend transferring him to Regina for psychiatric they have ways of determining what makes you Fuga the Public too often believes the parole Board holds the door open for villains to be unleashed after doing a fraction of their Fuga and Grier lamented several times during Breaks in thursdays inmates can apply for Day parole after on sixth of sentence and full parole after there eligible for a new hearing every six Day parole ranges from a few escorted hours out of prison to an Urban Halfway House with Days free for Job retraining or booze and drug the Board reads hefty reports from Case Fuga and Grier know the inmates record and the expert Odds on his doing it they can be does the con understand what Hes done does he blame the blame blame other proclaim his innocence hardened convicts pleas for Early release fall on the sceptical ears of National parole Board who say they base their decisions on welfare of general Public parole Board hearings hold the key to inmates Early does he care about his victims has he shown any propensity for rehabilitation undertaken Job Beatty bottle or dump thedrus courses does he put the boots to other give the guards a hard badmouth the Case workers is he looking for revenge on the Street Harvey of int even close to his real name is a landed immigrant who May have deportation problems in his he still has a drug trafficking beef to face in right now Hes in Stony doing three years for break Andente and threatening to cause bodily Harvey wants now he says Hes sold dope since he was his attitude is so what in a i was trying to the Way they do the system these you cant live on Harvey was Selling dope in Edmonton when he beat up his common Law but Only he so whats the big Deal she called the and he threatened her in the i said she looked she took it the wrong i told her i would kill it was just a common Harvey tells the Harvey denies he was a but admits that he walked into a hotel room where his spouse was in the company of a naked Harvey tossed the Guy but not before relieving him of his which he says was someone else have you Ever heard of a Guy being set being rolled asks i was pissed Harvey the reports say Harvey has threatened Stony he has a abusive in just a simple he this is in the but he rejects counselling and we have to determine quite your behaviour in the past is an indication of what youll do in the Fuga tells thumbs Back to the the feds appoint parole Board officers for five years at a Fuga is a former Winnipeg City councillor and school Grier was a Southern Manitoba Farmer who worked in the prison they work out of covering the Prairie provinces and Northwest divulging where they live now int in their Jeff plays it straight with the Hes a drunk who ran with a biker but he takes responsibility for his that includes numerous two holdups with a Metal pipe it was More or less to persuade them to give me the Money and Hes in alcoholics Anonymous and has a Job straightforward in a tie and Jeff might sell the Board members a new fridge or an insurance but Grier notes that psychiatrists say Jeff has Only a fragmented understanding of his his record is Long and Jeff gets a up to 48 hours a month on the he cant stay out of Stony cant drink or and cant hang around with his biker and finally theres Winnipeg wrong Way whose exploits even made one of the american supermarket tabloids last Stanley the Guy with a fake Beard who held up a Bank at one of Winnipeg major but came out the wrong door and forgot where he parked his a Chubby Little closing in on hed been fired just before pulling the he full of remorse for the Hurt hed caused his family and the people hed i guess i never Learned How to ask for but a loaded that Fuga Why would you take a loaded gun loaded if you had no intention of using it prison experts unanimously agree that Stanley just int the criminal Type and is unlikely to Ever do it that was totally out of character for says a forgiving Stanley will be in a Halfway House by the end of the trying to get it All Back siting Cost workers wages workers who occupied a Canada employment and immigration of fice in will be docked at least 19 Days says a depart ment about 30 members of the Canada employment and immigration Union began a Satin earlier this week to protest the decision to Transfer them to offices in because their office processed fewer than i claims a the workers ended their occupation Friday night after being served with an their plight Drew an orchestrated Effort by the Caius National executive to draw nationwide attention to the Issue by staging similar Satin at Canada employment and immigration offices across the ten Winnipeg workers took Over the regional director generals office but gave up the protest when threatened with they said if similar criteria was used to closed unemployment insurance offices in the Manit Basas Kat Chewan they would Only be located in Brandon and get message out Guy National Union vice president based in said workers involved in the protest Fri Day were told they will be docked a Days the incident will also be recorded on the participants permanent rec but Lavallee defended the action As Worth the Price we wanted to get the message out to the Public about whats been going he the governments been saying its trying to save but the Public is going to suffer from a group that performed a similar protest in Vancouver ended its Satin sympathetic Union officials entered the office of the regional direct to general in downtown Vancouver thursday morning with cots and sleeping Union spokesman Jim Taylor had said they would not willingly leave before an agreement was reached Between the Trail employees and there is no word on what penalties will be handed Down to those protes Golden Calls for Equality on task Force by Zena Olijnyk a proposed task Force to study violence against women should not bar Al Golden wed be insulting women if we suggest they have certain qualities that men dont possess or vice Golden Gle Lawn told executive policy committee last the committee decided to refer the proposal to the Board of commissioners for further As Well As to the Community services and plan and Parks and Cul Ture the task Force was suggested by Glen Murray last month after the massacre of 14 University of Montreal female it would suggest policy to promote Murray River Osborne suggested the task Force be made up of two councillors and members of 14 women groups including representatives of prostitutes and who appeared before the said that because women Are so vulnerable to Vio Lence we should be giving women the Opportunity to decide on How these issues should be he said some groups among those he suggested could name men to the task Force if they the task Force would consider such topics As design to ensure safety in parking lots and other Public facilities improving the efficiency of emergency response and involving More women in police fires damage two City Homes two fires at separate ends of the City caused More than dam age to two a fire spokes Man said the fire department was called to 61 Egerton Road in vital at yesterday where a fire caused an estimated damage to a Wall and no one was firefighters were also called to 94 Vanier drive in Garden City at 9 to extinguish a fire in the garage of a damage was estimated at there were no the cause of the two fires was not ;