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Federal prisoners travel unescorted from prison to prison by bus

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Federal convicts travel unescorted from prison to prison Monday, April 27, 2009 By JASON WHITELY / WFAA-TV DALLAS ? Among the hundreds of bus passengers arriving everyday in downtown Dallas, there are some the government doesn't want the public to know about. "It's an inherent safety and security risk for the industry as a whole," said Kim Plaskett, a spokeswoman with Greyhound Bus Lines. German Cruz is one of the passengers at issue. With a record of felony assault in New York ten years ago, a federal judge recently sentenced him to 41 months in prison for repeatedly sneaking into the United States. Cruz is now serving that sentence in federal prison. But, he was recently discovered at a bus stop ? ticket in hand ? transferring himself from one federal prison in Minnesota to another in Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).