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| Conditions in Baltimore Jail Found to Violate Prisoners' Rights |
| By Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 09/16/2002 |
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The U.S. Department of Justice 's civil rights division has found that conditions at the Baltimore City Detention Center violate the constitutional rights of inmates and appear to have played a role in the deaths of several prisoners, some of whom received little or no medical attention for chronic health problems. Chief among the findings in the Justice Department's report is that the state-run detention center - parts of which were built in 1803 - has a poorly run system of health care and suicide prevention that often takes days to assess an inmate's medical needs. In some cases, the problems proved deadly, according to the report, which gives state officials 49 days from Aug. 13, when the report was issued, to propose solutions. 'We find that persons confined suffer harm or the risk of serious harm,' the report concluded, citing several examples of jail suicides, heart-attack deaths and fatal asthma spasms that federal authorities deemed 'preventable if the inmates' conditions had been properly treated.' The report was made public August 30, when state officials released it. |
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