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| Advocates Fault D.C. On Prison Contracts |
| By Washington Post |
| Published: 03/19/2001 |
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D.C. officials have little or no idea how city inmates are treated at privately run prisons or prisons operated by other jurisdictions, an advocacy group has alleged in a report that raises serious health and safety concerns about the District's $85 million contract program. The D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services Project released the 50-page report last Friday. Among the findings: HIV-positive inmates receive incomplete treatment, guards routinely abuse inmates, and the conditions of mentally ill prisoners are not properly diagnosed. The D.C. Department of Corrections houses thousands of inmates in six contract facilities, from Virginia to New Mexico. But the monitors of those institutions are either unaware or unconcerned about the abusive situations, said Eric Lotke, executive director of the Legal Services Project. A spokesman for the department, disputed the allegations. The District began housing inmates in contract facilities in 1997. The arrangements were made under the terms of a federal bailout of the city's criminal justice system. |
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