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Fire risk mounts in Arizona prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fire risk mounts in Arizona prisons Pleas for funds to fix safety problems ignored for years By JJ Hensley and Casey Newton - Jan. 17, 2010 The Arizona Republic The potential for tragedy looms large at Arizona prisons, where each night more than 31,000 adult inmates and some 550 juveniles fall asleep in dangerous and deteriorating facilities. For more than a decade, investigators have identified serious fire-safety issues at the state's prisons and juvenile correctional facilities. Fire-alarm systems are obsolete, broken or non-existent. Sprinklers and smoke-ventilation systems required by building codes have never been installed, even in rapidly deteriorating wooden structures used to house juveniles. Where fire alarms are broken or non-existent, corrections officials employ 24-hour "fire watches" in which employees look for smoke as part of their duties...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).