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Report rips private Ariz. prison after escape

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report rips private Ariz. prison after escape 8-20-10 By JJ Hensley, The Arizona Republic The escape of three inmates from an Arizona prison will bring sweeping changes to the privately run facility near Kingman and could alter the way the state's prison system handles dangerous criminals in years to come. A state report on the July 30 prison escape details systemic problems ranging from ill-equipped facilities with inadequate oversight to faulty alarm systems and disrespectful inmates, all of which combined to create a lax culture that allowed the inmates to cut through fences and sneak out of the prison's medium-security facility. A summary of the findings The reason the men were able to escape is rooted in a culture of complacency that developed at the prison in the six years it has been open, the report said, and those factors were complicated by opening a new unit and shuffling inmates around the complex this year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 22, 2010 (boomark / email).