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Webpage: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100711/OPINION01/7110315
Pubdate: Sun, 11 Jul 2010
Source: Courier-Journal, The (Louisville, KY)
Copyright: 2010 The Courier-Journal
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Website: http://www.courier-journal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/97
Note: Only publishes local LTEs
NO ROOM IN PRISON
Kentucky's inmate population -- now at roughly 21,000 -- is growing at
a faster rate than any other state's, and the need for action
increases every day.
As The Courier-Journal's R.G. Dunlop reported last Sunday, almost all
state-run prisons and many jails are operating at or above capacity. Kentucky's corrections budget approached $500 million this year. And
relying on private prisons to pick up inmate overflow, which is no
less expensive than using state-run facilities, has managed to create
even more problems.
When Otter Creek Correctional Center, which is run by Corrections
Corp. of America -- the country's largest private-prison operator --
was a women's prison, inmates suffered sexual abuse by male employees,
substandard health care and inadequate maintenance that allowed human
waste to back up through shower drains. By monitoring records, The
Courier-Journal also found significant gaps in state oversight at
Otter Creek for nearly three months in 2008 and again in 2009.
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MAP posted-by: Jo-D
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