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Texas-New Mexico Border Series Immigrant Inmates Caught in Outsourcing Labyrinth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Americas Program Report Texas-New Mexico Border Series Immigrant Inmates Caught in Outsourcing Labyrinth Tom Barry | February 16, 2009 Imprisoned immigrants in the large prison complex outside the small West Texas town of Pecos have rioted twice over the past few months complaining about inadequate medical care. Their complaints, sparked by the death of a sick inmate in solitary confinement, echo a chorus of similar complaints around the country about medical care in immigrant prisons. Medical care, like most aspects of imprisonment in America, is outsourced at the Reeves County Detention Center. As a result, imprisoned immigrants don't know who exactly is imprisoning them, who is responsible for their medical care, and who they should petition when they have grievances...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).