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| Texas Town Considers Moving Prisoners |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/23/2002 |
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Suburban Haltom City, Tex., is studying whether to send its prisoners to jails in other communities while it battles eight civil-rights lawsuits alleging sexual abuse in its own jail. Police said the study doesn't mean the department agrees there was widespread abuse at the jail. 'I'm still of the opinion that the allegations stemmed from one former jailer,' Deputy Police Chief Cliff Jaynes said. Eight women who were jailed for minor offenses between June 2000 and March 2001 filed federal lawsuits alleging they were sexually abused by male jailers and other police employees. Police in Haltom City, about four miles northeast of Fort Worth, have contacted Euless, Hurst, North Richland Hills and the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department about paying them to house prisoners in their jails. Jaynes said he started the study a few weeks ago. 'I would like to have all the numbers such as costs and logistics by the end of the year,' he said. The Haltom City Jail can house 42 prisoners. |
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