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Wyo sends minimum-security inmates to max security prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Thursday, 08 May 2008 Wyo sends minimum-security inmates to max security prison CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Sixteen minimum-security inmates from Wyoming are among the more than 100 inmates the state has sent to a maximum-security Virginia prison that has been the target of human rights complaints over the years. Some civil liberties groups say Wallens Ridge State Prison, in Big Stone Gap, Va., is inappropriate for minimum-security inmates. Virginia built the prison in the late 1990s as a ''supermax'' facility exclusively for the most dangerous inmates, but downgraded it to a maximum-security prison in 2002. ''It boggles the mind why you would send a minimum-security prisoner to a place like Wallens Ridge,'' Jamie Fellner, senior counsel with Human Rights Watch in New York City, said Wednesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).