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| Inmates Say They Deserve Transfer |
| By El Paso Times |
| Published: 01/02/2006 |
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About a dozen inmates convicted of white-collar crimes who are being held at a La Tuna prison at Biggs Army Airfield are suing the federal prison system for housing them with gang members and undocumented immigrants hundreds of miles from their friends and relatives. The inmates say their crimes and good behavior while incarcerated qualify them for a minimum-security facility under Federal Bureau of Prisons rules. They say the bureau is violating its own policies, which include trying to place inmates within 500 miles of the location where they are expected to be released. About 100 inmates at the Federal Prison Camp-Nellis in Las Vegas, Nev., were transferred to institutions in Mississippi, Alabama, South Dakota and to the Federal Satellite Low-La Tuna facility in El Paso. The Nellis camp was closed by the bureau as a cost-cutting measure, according to media reports. At the time, a bureau official was quoted as saying prison officials would try to locate the inmates within the 500-mile radius. Bureau officials, both locally and in Washington, D.C., could not be reached for comment. The inmates say the bureau is ignoring its own stated mission of confining offenders in safe, humane and appropriately secure facilities that provide work and other self-improvement opportunities "to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding citizens." |
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