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Scarcely had the chaplain said amen to the opening prayer when Missouri Republican Durward Hall demanded the entire journal of the preceding session be read. The clerk had barely begun to drone when Minority Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois leaped up and demanded a quorum count, which includes a full roll call of the House. McCormack had to comply. The count ate up half an hour. It was hardly finished when Iowa Republican H. R. Gross asked for another. And so it went all afternoon and into the night. Majority Leader Carl Albert accused the opposition of filibustering. Tempers frazzled...
...prison chaplain, says Lutheran Minister William Currens, was until recently a man of no particular qualifications - "retired or having difficulty try ing to find a place where he wouldn't be noticed." Today, the men who minister behind bars constitute a highly trained, psychologically astute elite of the clergy...
...part, higher standards for prison chaplains have been inspired by growing secular awareness that prisons are primarily intended to rehabilitate rather than merely punish; more than half of the states now require that chaplains undergo from six to 18 months of specialized pastoral training. For example, the Rev. Henry Taxis, chaplain to the Hennepin County Home for Boys in Minnesota, studied for nine months at a state hospital in Iowa, three months at Federal Detention Headquarters in New York, and six months at the Illinois State Training School for Boys. The chaplains learn fast that the techniques suitable...
...Gospels." "We work closely with psychiatrists and psychologists and use many of their techniques in our approach," says the Rev. W. Ralph Graham, chaplain at the Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, Colo. "We don't use the Gospels or the Ten Commandments or the Beatitudes any more. Instead we talk about God in terms of the prisoners' experience. God has to be something they understand, not just an authoritarian father image." Says Lutheran Pastor Harold Lindberg, chaplain at Ohio Penitentiary: "I stress things like Paul's calling men to victorious living. Without using those exact words...
...Prison chaplains agree that helping restore in prisoners their sense of humanity is a primary task. Most first offenders are crushed by their loss of freedom and self-respect and are bitter about the inequities of the law. "We are dealing with people who feel that there is no justice at all in meting out punishment," says Pastor Currens, chaplain at the Minnesota Women's Reformatory, and he tends to share the feeling. "If you steal an $18 dress, you can get 18 months in jail; but if you cheat for $100,000 on your income...