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| Prison lacked inspectors before riot |
| By The Courier-Journal |
| Published: 10/04/2004 |
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Kentucky and Vermont did not have inspectors on site at the Lee Adjustment Center in the months before inmates rioted at the privately run prison. While it is not required by law, Kentucky Corrections Commissioner John D. Rees said the state wants an inspector to work at the prison to make sure the Corrections Corporation of America runs it properly. After the inspector's job became vacant in July, the state should have promptly reassigned a full-time inspector to the prison, Rees said. Still, he said, the lack of one played no role in the riot earlier this month. "For a month it wasn't addressed. Should it have been? Probably yes," said Rees, adding that an inspector has since been reassigned there. Vermont state officials, who had sent more than 400 inmates to the prison, have said inmates had complained of prison conditions, but Rees said an inspector probably could not have prevented the riot. Rees said the cause of the riot is under investigation by his department and CCA. He had been employed by CCA as a consultant and executive before he became corrections commissioner. State law doesn't require inspectors in private prisons, but it says the state "shall retain clear supervisory and monitoring powers over the operation and management" of private prisons. |
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