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| Inmate sues over prison treatment |
| By Birmingham News |
| Published: 10/25/2004 |
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An Alabama inmate has sued the Department of Corrections and a private prison company in Louisiana alleging that negligence allowed an unsavory, sexually charged atmosphere in the prison where she was being held. The lawsuit, filed Oct. 1 in Louisiana federal court, claims that officers at the South Louisiana Correctional Center sexually assaulted at least two prisoners, including raping the woman who filed the suit, and that the officers had sex with one another and played cards and drank beer during the night shift. The Alabama Department of Corrections pays the private prison in Basile, La., to house more than 100 female prisoners because Alabama's prison system is not large enough to hold them. Alabama prisons spokesman Brian Corbett said it would be inappropriate to comment because of the pending litigation. The four officers named in the lawsuit have been fired. Also, an Evangeline Parish grand jury indicted them on charges of malfeasance in office for sexual conduct prohibited for people confined in a correctional institution. All four pleaded not guilty. |
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