DO AS I SAY...

You'd think a guy who watched convicts for a living would know how to act
once he became one. Not so.

Frank Caywood, who spent more than two years supervising crooks as a
Multnomah County parole officer, will spend the next year sitting in jail
among them.

Last week Caywood plead no contest to 12 counts of theft, official
misconduct and possession of heroin. Caywood apparently was hoping for some
leniency from Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Dorothy Baker. He didn't
get it.

Deputy District Attorney Mark McDonnell says that when Baker sentenced
Caywood to 12 months in jail, Caywood called the judge "cold-hearted."
Baker promptly tacked another 10 days on to his sentence and ordered that
he not receive credit for good behavior. Under normal circumstances,
Caywood could have whittled his sentence down to less than seven months.

"He just dug himself a hole. He blamed everybody else," McDonnell says. "He
showed no remorse whatsoever. People expect more of their public employees."

Caywood's defense attorney, Edward P. Bernardi, refused to comment on the case.

The Department of Adult and Juvenile Community Justice began investigating
Caywood last summer after officials there began to suspect that he was
stealing the fees he was supposed to be collecting from clients.
Authorities later discovered that he had relapsed into heroin addiction and
was using the money to feed his habit ("Broken Trust," WW, Oct. 15, 1997).

Despite having two misdemeanor convictions on his record, Caywood was hired
by the department in 1995. He was indicted in October and fired in
September.