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NY: Justice Department Finds That Erie County Jails Abuse of Prisoners Violates Their Constitutional Rights

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U.S. probe finds abuses at Erie County jails By Matthew Spina Buffalo NEWS STAFF REPORTER July 29, 2009 A pregnant inmate thrown to the floor while being booked. Guards looking the other way when inmates fight. Jail deputies beating inmates in a remote elevator where no security camera is watching. Those were among the abuses the U.S. Justice Department found in an almost two-year investigation of Erie County's two jails. The federal investigators concluded that the jails violate the constitutional rights of their inmates and subject them to brutality as well as poor care on several levels. In its 50-page report, the Justice Department says the Erie County Holding Center in Buffalo and the Correctional Facility in Alden have failed to correct their serious problems even after being warned for years by other agencies...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).