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What did you do when someone verbally attacked another person directly during mediation?
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Dick
Salem
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I was the "white devil", (which they later called me in their newsletter) who could not be
trusted. They verbally abused me. You know, you expect some of that. The BBDCO said "we
can’t end the lock up," and it became apparent to us that they were using the lock up, as
leverage against the institution. Nobody in the reformatory wanted to be in lock up,
but the BBDCO was using it politically. Creating a scare by saying it wasn’t safe. It wasn’t
clear why they did this, but perhaps it gave them some power. As I
walked out of the room I remember a BBDCO leader pounding on the table and waving his fist at
me and saying, "there ain’t going to be no mediation in this place and if there is, it’s going to
be in front of television cameras.” So that told me that the only question we had to resolve
ultimately would be the openness of mediation to the press.
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