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Second Death This Year of Hawaiian Prisoner at CCA AZ Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Isle inmate's death sparks investigation By Mary Adamski POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 11, 2010 The second death this year of a Hawaii inmate in an Arizona prison is setting off alarm bells with the state Department of Public Safety and lawmakers who want to scrutinize the arrangement of outsourcing local felons to privately operated mainland lockups. Two investigators from the Public Safety Department will leave next week for Eloy, Ariz., where about 1,900 Hawaii prisoners are held at Saguaro Correctional Center. No cause of death has been released yet for Clifford Medina, 23, who was found unresponsive in his cell Tuesday morning. An emergency medical services team tried unsuccessfully to revive him, according to a brief statement from the Corrections Corp...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 11, 2010 (boomark / email).