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| Baltimore Judge Orders Inmates Out of Hot Jail |
| By Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 08/16/2002 |
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A Baltimore District Court judge ordered yesterday that two dozen inmates be moved from the Women's Detention Center because of excessive heat in the facility, but jail officials did not comply with the order, saying there is nowhere to put the women. 'I'm not defying the order. I can't comply with it,' said LaMont W. Flanagan, commissioner of the state's Division of Pretrial Detention and Services. 'I don't have the resources. There is no secure facility to move them to.' The order, issued by Judge Charlotte M. Cooksey, came on a day when temperatures inside the poorly ventilated women's jail hovered at about 110 degrees. Cooksey said the temperatures could aggravate certain medical conditions, and that she expected jail officials would have a plan to move the inmates elsewhere. 'I hope and assume that the state had been giving this great thought and would have made some plan for these people to accommodate them elsewhere,' Cooksey said. 'This is not something that has been suddenly brought to their attention.' Cooksey said she may hold jail officials in contempt of court if they do not comply with her ruling. Contempt could mean fining them, or detaining them in jail until they complete her order. |
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