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Two responses in the NY Times to aricle and editorial about detention centers

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Two of the five letters printed by the NY Times today in response to the "Death by Detention" editorial and the article ?Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody? (front page, May 5). To the Editor: Your May 6 editorial ?Death by Detention? was right to point out the secrecy and lack of transparency surrounding the treatment of immigrant detainees held in for-profit facilities. But your call for holding detention centers to the same enforceable standards that apply to prisons would do little to help. Sadly, there are no enforceable national standards for prisons and jails in the United States. There is one national accreditation body that had developed standards, the American Correctional Association, but its standards are not enforceable, and there is no requirement for facilities to be accredited...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).