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ACLU report sheds light on Nevada prison conditions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

ACLU report sheds light on Nevada prison conditions * By Susan Hillman, Prison Policy Examiner * March 5th, 2011 The ACLU is making several claims about Nevada's prisons, including having pregnant women in shackles and prisoners having to eat meat labeled "not for human consumption." The Nevada Department of Corrections is calling the report is offensive and disagrees with the report. The Nevada Department of Corrections released this report to dispute the ACLU. But the ACLU is still saying that the Nevada prisons are too overcrowded, too under staffed, and too under funded to provide the basic needs for prisoners. According to News Now, "You either need to provide them their basic need, which is going to cost money, or start reducing the prison population," said Rebecca Paddock, author of the ACLU-NV Report...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).