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Asbury Park Sept. 23, 1983 B23 2 claim prisons aggravate drug abuse The Associated Pren TRENTON A political battle erupted jresterday on the Assembly Corrections, Health and Human Services Committee 1 Over Democratic claims that most inmates leave state prisons with worse drug problems than when they arrived. Republicans and the Department of "Corrections said the claims by Assembly-. men George OtlowsW and Frank M. Pelly, both D-Middlesex, were unsubstantiated, OUowski who, along with Pelly, denied allegations they were trying to politicize (he issue, claimed "about 70 to 80 percent of, the state's short-term, non-violent in-J twites have drug problems problems "Jhat were aggravated, not alleviated, in "prison." Otlowski later conceded that the fig visiting procedures, was the way to stem the flow.

Department of Corrections figures for the first six months of 1983 showed 39 vis-tors arrested for trying to smuggle a controlled dangerous substance and 46 inmates charged with possession. Stabile said 95 percent of the cases involved marijuana. Random urine checks conducted inside prisons on 2,784 inmates showed 346 with evidence of drugs or marijuana, "most of it in people returning from furlough," Stabile added. During the period from January to July, 433 of the state's 11,000 inmates were charged in drug-related disciplinary actions, he said. "Sixty to 80 percent of the people inside do not have drug problems on the inside that they did on the outside," Stabile said.

place before issuing pronouncements on those concerns. 'Tm appalled that we as a group (committee) are using the discomfort of prisoners, school children and others for political purposes," Assemblyman Nicholas Felice, R-Bergen, said at a hastily summoned news conference to respond to Otlowski. "I do not, from the initial findings, draw the same conclusions." Assemblyman Garabed Haytaian, R-Warren, said Otlowski issued "premature conclusions. "If this was a problem on the state level, we didn't hear anybody on our own Joint Appropriations Committee asking for more money," Haytaian added. Otlowski said drugs are being smuggled into prisons during contact visits and that better training for guards, not tighter ures were gleaned from national surveys and not confirmed as true in New Jersey.

"You don't need data to prove a point," Otlowski said. "Drugs are not rampant, but they're readily available." He said the committee held one hearing on prison drug problems Sept. 14 at Rahway State Prison in Woodbridge Township. "It's probably a conception that someone would get from spending 2 hours with 10 inmates," said James Stabile, a Department of Corrections spokesman. "We don't deny there are drugs inside, but not anywhere near the proportions they're talking about." Otlowski said the Democratic-controlled committee would hold one hearing each on drugs in schools and drugs in the work Judge orders burial of girl dead since July The Associated Press While he expressed sympathy for the Alianos and respect for their religious convictions, the judge said it was evident Faith Anne would not be raised from the dead, and he had no choice but to order a decent burial for her.

"I respect your opinion, and this is not a punitive action," DeSimone said. Aliano said: "God said she will come their daughter, Assignment Judge Samuel G. DeSimone ruled the girl's body must be buried by Wednesday. "I've given you an opportunity to bury your child. I find that Faith Anne is legally dead, approximately 70 days ago, and her body remains unburied," DeSimone said.

"The court intervenes to give her infant body a dignified and proper burial." WOODBURY A Superior Court judge yesterday ordered the burial of a 10-year-old girl, who died July 2 and whose parents 'refused to bury her because they believed she would be resurrected. After Michael and Ann Marie Aliano of Franklin Township appeared before him and refused to arrange for the burial of A', I HU1 HEHfORD 5 1 Hr Souin iUl i 9'i 1 Ex-bank teller admits embezzling $1.6 million back, and that is what I believe. "When the people see her come back to life, I trust they'll begin to believe in God again, because as sure as we're sitting in this court house, God is going to raise her," her father added. The girl died from what Gloucester County Medical Examiner Claus P. Speth called "complications in connection with juvenile diabetes." Her body was found wrapped in a blanket on the floor of a Clayton building Aliano uses for his construction business.

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