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The Caged Life
These articles look into the treatment of the most isolated inamte at the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum (ADX), Thomas Silverstein.The use of long-term isolation to help manage prisoners is now a growing trend in America, especially during times when terrorism is considered at large.
Tags: 9/11: terror; security; safety; isolate; Bureau of Prisoners; BOP;
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Taking the Cuffs off at Carswell
Fort Worth Weekly reporter Betty Brink has been covering medical and sexual abuse of female inmates at Carswell Federal Medical Center, in Texas, since 1999. As a result of her coverage, and his own investigation, a retired judge, Ross Sears is asking for a Congressional investihgation into the deadly conditions at "the only prison hospital in the country for mentally or chronicallly ill or dying women who have been convicted of a federal crime."
Tags: medical negligence; sexual abuse; Carswell Federal Mediacal Center; medical records; Bureau of Prisons; FOI requests; U.S. Office of Special Counsel; Dr. Roger Guthrie; Ross Sears; retaliation; compassionate release; John Peter Smith Hospital; Tarrant County Medical Examiner; autopsies; prison deaths; women inmates; femaile prisoners; Baylor Regional Transplant Institute; Huguley Memorial Medical Center; brain damage; whistleblower complaints; medical malpractice; sentinel event; rape;
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Fake Law Firm
A lawyer leaves his house in his newly purchased Mercedes and heads to his law firm, where he helps families of federal prisoners, desperate for downward departures and resentencings. What's different? The "lawyer" is a federal prisoner, his "house" is a halfway house and his new Mercedes was purchased by the bogus law firm he created with his mother to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from people, including an NBA basketball player who thought he was investing through the "attorney".
Tags: TAPE; lawyer; firm; fraud; fake; federal prisoner; law firm; fake law firm; convict drug dealer; con artist; con-man; Department of Justice; drug dealer; halfway house; methamphetamine; federal bureau of prisons
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Terror Behind Bars
Tipped off by a riot at the Lompoc jail, the Santa Barbara News Press pieces together a six-year old gruesome murder of a prison guard therein. From the questionnaire, "the investigation reveals an alleged plot by radical Islamic prisoners - including one of t he men behind the World Trade Center bombing in 1993- who goaded a mentally challenged inmate into attacking. Though the Bureau of Prisons assured the slain guard, Scott Williams' family of swift justice, its been eight years and Scott's wife Kristy is still attending court hearings.
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Poisoned Lives
Three Bureau of Prisons' maintenance personnel have charged that they became ill from serious to terminal lead poisoning as a result of exposure to lead particles and dust on the job. They further claim that a massive cover-up was orchestrated by the warden and other BOP employees, all of whom denied that lead had been removed from a room that the men were working in.
Tags: Carswell; Bureau of Prisons; lead poisoning; OSHA; Federal Medical Center; Fort Worth; Texas
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Collateral Damage
Whether or not the war on drugs and crime is effective law enforcement policy, more than 250,00 more American parents are in prison today than in 1991, the number of children with a mother in prison having nearly doubled in the same period. Seven percent of black children--nearly nine times more than white children--have a parent in prison. In all, 1.5 million kids in the U.S. are children of inmates, and the effects on their lives are profound.
Tags: children of inmates; Federal Bureau of Prisons; law enforcement policy; incarcerated parents
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A Broken Code
This story looks at a top-secret intelligence unit within the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum (ADX) prison and examines claims that prisoners in the program exaggerate their gang status and knowledge of criminal activity within ADX to curry favor and win extraordinary privileges. The unit was supposed to benefit authorities by providing them with information from inmate snitches about criminal activities going on both inside and outside the prison.The snitches were to provide information on fellow gang members and corrupt prison staff and detail how they obtained weapons or passed messages inside the prison. But at least one ADX prisoner claims inmate snitches in the program manipulated prison staff and lied about innocent people to win special privileges.
Tags: ADX; U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum; gangs; federal supermax; snitches; Aryan Brotherhood; U.S. Bureau of Prisons; drugs; federal prisons
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Federal Bureau of Violence
The New Times Reports on crimes committed by an FBI informant while on the federal payroll. The FBI turned a blind eye to a murder conspiracy plot, narcotics trafficking and other crimes, while their case built. When things went sour they arrested their informant on parole violations.
Tags: FBI; gangs; Mexican Mafia; prisons; informants
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Bailing Out Private Jails
The American Prospect looks government contracts to privatize federal prisons when the same companies have come under much scrutiny for problems with their privatized state prisons. The same problems created by the desire to cut costs in for-profit state prisons can be expected in the new federal prisons, the Prospect reports.
Tags: private jails; private prisons; Corrections Corporation of America; Wackenhut Corporation; Federal Bureau of Prisons
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Reservation Crime is Out of Control
The Argus Leader reports on the increasing crime rates on several South Dakota Indian reservations, rates that "surpasses crime in some of America's major metropolitan cities." Officials believe most of the crime is due to alcohol abuse. "In 1998, Pine Ridge authorities made 9,000 arrests for public drunkenness-roughly one for every five residents and made another 780 arrests for drunken driving. . .Tribal, state and federal officials stress that two other key factors contribute to crime: Extraordinarily high unemployment rates . . . and huge numbers of people living in poverty." Reporter Lee Williams examines these issues along with how local police officers and the community are trying to stop it.
Tags: crime; Indians; reservations; Bureau of Indian Affairs; police; FBI; Bureau of Alcohol; Tobacco and Firearms; South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation; Federal Bureau of Prisons; gangs