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AZ: Imgine the fury if Marcia Powell had died in Arpaio's jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Imagine fury if inmate had died while on Arpaio's watch by E. J. Montini - Jun. 9, 2009 The Arizona Republic The gruesome passing of inmate Marcia Powell a few weeks back has proved that in Arizona it doesn't matter how a convict dies, only where. Powell would have been national and international news if she had died in one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's much discussed jails. But she didn't. She was in a state prison. If the chain-link fence enclosure into which Powell was placed and left in the hot sun for four hours had been in Tent City instead of the Perryville prison complex, Amnesty International would have contacted the U.S. State Department about the worse-than-Guantanamo conditions. But there was no great protest. If a mentally ill person like Powell had been subjected to the same treatment in Arpaio's jail as she had been in prison, I have no doubt that the American Civil Liberties Union, and who knows what other human-rights organizations, would have been up in arms, raising a stink among politicians on every level...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).