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What should we take away from the latest private prison scandal?

By Douglas A. Berman

The New York Times reported yesterday on the latest private prison scandal in this piece headlined "Hawaii to Remove Inmates Over Abuse Charges."  Here are some of the details: Hawaii prison officials said Tuesday that all of the state?s 168 female inmates at a privately run Kentucky prison will be removed by the end of September because of charges of sexual abuse by guards. Forty inmates were returned to Hawaii on Aug. 17.... Otter Creek is run by the Corrections Corporation of America and is one of a spate of private, for-profit prisons, mainly in the South, that have been the focus of investigations over issues like abusive conditions and wrongful deaths. Because Eastern Kentucky is one of the poorest rural regions in the country, the prison was welcomed by local residents desperate for jobs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).