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Hawaii/AZ: Hawaii Brings Back Prisoners from CCA Prisons in AZ

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State Retrieves Inmates From Private Prisons By PURNA NEMANI Monday, January 31, 2011Last Update: 7:51 AM PT Courthouse News Service HONOLULU (CN) - Hawaii's new governor, Neil Abercrombie, kept his promise last week by bringing 243 inmates back to Hawaii from Arizona prisons run by the Corrections Corporation of America. Abercrombie acted after more than a dozen inmates filed lawsuits claiming they were subjected to brutal treatment inside CCA prisons. Hawaii, which has been strapped for prison space, has relied on two CCA prisons in Arizona to house its inmates: roughly 1,800 Hawaiian inmates at the Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy and about 50 at Red Rock Correctional Center. But the Hawaii Department of Public Safety had to investigate CCA and intervene after a string of incidents brought inmate lawsuits alleging assault and battery, criminal indifference, cruel and unusual punishment, retaliation and negligence...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 07, 2011 (boomark / email).