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| Ariz. Inmate Transfers Suspended After Disturbance in Texas |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/07/2003 |
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The Arizona Department of Corrections has suspended transfers of inmates to a Texas private prison after 82 prisoners already transferred were involved in a disturbance last week. Prison staff fired pepper gas into the dormitories to quell the disturbance on the night of January 2 at the Newton County Correctional Facility, but no inmates or staff were injured, the department said. The facility is located in Newton, approximately 150 miles northeast of Houston. The inmates flooded dormitories, tore up mattresses, destroyed television sets and broken windows and light fixtures, with damage estimated at $10,000 to $15,000, the department said. All of the inmates who participated in the disturbance are Mexican nationals who after the disturbance were being moved into single cells, the department said. Transfers will be halted until the completion of an investigation by the department and Correctional Services Corp., the Sarasota, Fla.-based company which runs the facility, into the cause of the disturbance, the department said. The department had transferred 346 inmates since November under a contract to house 636 inmates at the Newton County facility. The Arizona Legislature last year authorized the transfers to relieve crowding in Arizona's state prisons and to save the state money during its current budget crisis. |
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