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| County fires back, defends standards at jails |
| By buffalonews.com |
| Published: 09/14/2009 |
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Erie County's chief legal officer has denied allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice made in a blistering, 50-page report on the county's jails and accused federal investigators of becoming a prisoners' advocacy group. County Attorney Cheryl A. Green, who has refused to allow federal investigators into the Erie County Holding Center and Erie County Correctional Facility without county supervision, said the county provides constitutional standards in its jails. "The law is clear that prisoners cannot expect, and the county is not expected to provide the amenities, conveniences and services of a good hotel," Green wrote in a 37-page reply to the federal government. Green, with the backing of County Executive Chris Collins, ended any cooperation in the federal investigation on June 16, 2008, including inspection of the jails. She charged in her letter that, after the cooperation ended, the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division concocted a ruse with the U.S. Marshal's service to move prisoners out of the facilities so they could be interviewed. "As an attorney," Green said in an interview, "you cannot engage in this type of deceitful fraudulent behavior to gather information that is not accessible to you in the first instance." The U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment on Green's report. Read More. |
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