Biography
Forrest Gustave was a federal prisoner confined in the START behavior-modification program at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. A 1973 prisoner letter named him among six men resisting the program. He also challenged the involuntary confinement in federal court; in 1974 the court ruled that forcible START transfers without minimum hearing procedures violated the Fifth Amendment right to due process.
Forrest Gustave was a federal prisoner confined in the START behavior-modification program at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. A 1973 prisoner letter named him among six men resisting the program. He also challenged the involuntary confinement in federal court; in 1974 the court ruled that forcible START transfers without minimum hearing procedures violated the Fifth Amendment right to due process. Historical confinement in START, rather than a separate criminal sentence. The Daily Rag letter describes collective noncooperation and alleges harsh confinement and reprisals. These allegations are attributed to the prisoners. In Clonce v. Richardson, 379 F. Supp. 338 (W.D. Mo., July 31, 1974), the court granted declaratory relief on the due-process claim; other claims were dismissed as moot after the program ended. Program termination involved return to the original prisons, not release from custody. Individual transfer dates, release dates, underlying convictions, and actual total time served are not established here.
Clonce v. Richardson, 379 F. Supp. 338 (1974).
In a June 1974 letter, Gustave reported his return from Springfield to Leavenworth after resisting START. He said lawyers obtained a thirty-day general-population placement instead of further isolation; this was a prison placement, not discharge.