Hawaii
January 19, 2011
More Abuse Reported at Private Prison
"Gov. Neil Abercrombie has promised to bring back all Hawaii inmates serving prison sentences on the mainland because of previous allegations of mistreatment by guards at Saguaro,"according to the Jan. 14 newspaper report.
Eighteen Hawaiian inmates sued CCA in December 2010, claiming that guards stripped, beat, kicked and threatened to kill them, banged their heads on tables while they were handcuffed, and that "the warden himself" threatened their families. Those inmates claim that CCA "deliberately destroyed and failed to preserve evidence of their wrongdoing, including videotapes," and "deliberately falsified reports."
Hawaii's governor also cited a December 2010 "riot" at another CCA prison in Arizona, Red Rock Correctional Center, which holds about 50 Hawaiian prisoners. The Saguaro prison holds about 1,800 Hawaiians...
LINK - CourthouseNews.com
October 4, 2010
Captive audience
Charter flights usually carry vacationers or sports teams.
But about four times a year, the flights are different.
That's when up to 150 male inmates with hand and leg restraints are loaded onto a convoy of buses and transported under armed guard from prison to the airport...
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September 4, 2010
Third Hawaii inmate faces death penalty in Arizona
A third Hawaii inmate serving time in an Arizona prison faces the death penalty after allegedly killing a fellow inmate during an argument in June.
Mahina Uli Silva, 21, was indicted by a Pinal County grand jury yesterday for allegedly strangling his cellmate from Hawaii, Clifford Medina, 23, on June 8. Medina was found unresponsive in the cell he shared with Silva at Saguarao Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz.
Clayton Frank, director of the state Department of Public Safety, said his office was informed of the indictment yesterday...
LINK - StarAdvertiser.com
June 10, 2010
Another Hawaii inmate dead at CCA private prison in Arizona
A second Hawaii inmate has died at a private prison in Arizona this year.
Hawaii Public Safety Department's deputy director for corrections, Tommy Johnson, says investigators will travel to Saquaro Correctional Center in investigate the death of 23-year-old Clifford Medina.
He was pronounced Tuesday, half an hour after his cellmate reported him unresponsive. Medina was serving time for burglary, theft, jumping bail and assaulting a law enforcement officer...
LINK - KOLD.com
March 17, 2010
Another suit from Hawaiian inmate alleging rape by CCA guard in Kentucky
A Hawai'i prison inmate who alleges she was sexually assaulted by two guards at a Mainland prison has sued the state and the private operator of the prison.
The suit, filed Monday, alleges that the plaintiff was attacked June 16, 2008, by male corrections officers at the Otter Creek Correctional Center in Kentucky.
The woman is serving a life prison sentence for murder and kidnapping convictions...
LINK - HonoluluAdvertiser.com
February 19, 2010
Hawaii inmate killed in Arizona prison
Authorities have started an investigation into the killing yesterday of a Hawaii inmate at Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona, where about 1,900 Hawaii inmates are currently housed.
Clayton Frank, state Department of Public Safety director, identified the inmate who was killed as Bronson Nunuha, 26. He was incarcerated on three counts of burglary in the second degree, and was going to be maxing out on his sentence on Oct. 31, 2010, Frank said.
Frank said Nunuha had been at the facility for about four years...
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January 8, 2010
Kentucky Gov Orders Female Inmates Removed from CCA Private Prison
Kentucky's governor has ordered some 400 female inmates removed from a corporate-run prison after allegations of sexual misconduct by male guards.
Gov. Steve Beshear ordered the women moved from Otter Creek Correctional Complex to a state-run prison starting by July 1.
The move comes four months after the Kentucky Department of Corrections called for security improvements at the prison in a report on 18 alleged cases of sexual misconduct by guards there.
The prison is operated by Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America…
LINK - ABCNews.GO.com
October 6, 2009
Local inmate sues over jail sexual abuse
A Hawaii woman imprisoned in Kentucky says she was sexually abused by a prison guard and claims the jail tried to cover it up. Monday afternoon, Totie Tauala's attorney formally filed seven counts against the corporation that runs the facility.
Tauala is the first to formally come forward of about 19 Hawaii and Kentucky women who make similar sexual abuse allegations. They were all serving sentences at the Otter Creek Correctional Facility in Wheelwright, Kentucky.
A warning: some of the details in this case are disturbing…
LINK - KHNL.com
September 3, 2009
Hawaiian female inmates finally back home from private Kentucky prison
All but one of the remaining Hawai'i inmates housed at the embattled Otter Creek Women's Prison in Kentucky are back in Hawai'i and are likely to remain close to home.
The state decided to remove the prisoners from the facility following allegations that 23 Otter Creek inmates, including seven from Hawai'i, were sexually assaulted by prison personnel.
State Department of Public Safety director Clayton Frank said 128 prisoners arrived back in Hawai'i on Monday. Fifty-nine are being housed at the Federal Detention Center near Honolulu International Airport; 69 are at the Women's Community Correctional Center in Kailua…
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August 22, 2009
Hawaii: Mainland prisons cheap but problematic
State corrections officials have long claimed that housing Hawaii convicts at privately operated prisons on the mainland is much cheaper than incarcerating them on the islands. Problems at a private prison housing Hawaii women in Kentucky indicate that it is operating on the cheap, in comparison not only with Hawaii prisons but with public facilities in Kentucky.
More than half of the 128 female inmates from Hawaii will return to the islands for incarceration here following allegations of sexual assaults by corrections officers. Hawaii officials should have known from monthly monitoring reports over the past 19 months that the Otter Creek Correctional Center in eastern Kentucky was plagued by understaffing, poor employee morale and security concerns…
LINK - StarBulletin.com
August 19, 2009
Hawaii pulling its women inmates out of troubled Kentucky prison
Women inmates from Hawai'i will be removed from a Kentucky prison for safety reasons after allegations that some were sexually abused by prison guards, the state Department of Public Safety announced yesterday.
Clayton Frank, the department's director, said 40 women inmates were transferred back to the Islands on Monday and most of the 128 women remaining at Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright will return within a month. Several women serving lengthy sentences will be moved to other Mainland prisons, according to the department.
Frank said many inmates wanted to stay at Otter Creek because they believe they are benefiting from its prison services…
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July 19, 2009
Private prison in KY now under investigation for 19 sex assaults
An investigation into sex assaults involving Hawai'i and other female inmates at a private Kentucky prison has widened and now includes 19 alleged attacks over the past three years.
Honolulu attorney Myles Breiner is representing three Hawai'i women who allege they were sexually assaulted at Otter Creek Correctional Center within the past 12 to 18 months. The most recent sex assault was reported June 23 and allegedly involved a male corrections officer.
Meanwhile, Kentucky officials say they have launched an investigation into 16 alleged sex assaults at Otter Creek involving Kentucky women. Some of the allegations date back to 2006…
LINK - HonoluluAdvertiser.com
July 13, 2009
Hawaii to investigate private prison rapes in KY
State officials are on the mainland to investigate accusations that female prisoners from Hawaii have been sexually assaulted by guards at a privately run prison in Kentucky.
"It's a very serious issue, a serious charge," Gov. Linda Lingle said yesterday. "We have a very large contract with this company, and we're going to have to sit with them when we get the report."
The Community Alliance on Prisons, which pushes for humane treatment of Hawaii prisoners, held a protest at the state Capitol on Friday, demanding that the state bring back female inmates held in mainland prisons. They cited the alleged sexual assaults of five women at the Otter Creek Correctional Facility in Wheelwright, Ky…
LINK - StarBulletin.com
September 4, 2008
Officials in prison towns adjust to bad neighbors, tout benefits
Vicki Kilvinger, mayor of Florence, Ariz., admits when people hear the name of her town, they often think of prisons. Florence, Ariz., not only has nine prisons, but there's also Florence, Colo., home of the Supermax prison.
But Kilvinger and a number of officials who live in prison communities see a lot of advantages to housing a community of offenders inside fences.
They debunked concerns raised by some Pahrump residents leery that a planned federal detention center being built by Corrections Corporation of America will reduce property values, bring unsavory relatives and friends to town to visit the inmates, lead to escapes and not result in the good-paying jobs that have been promised…
LINK - PahrumpValleyTimes.com
April 8, 2008
Privatization Update: April 8, 2008
Privatization Update
March 31-April 6, 2008
Correctional Medical Services
April 1 - New Jersey has canceled its $85 million annual contract with CMS that has provided medical, dental and pharmaceutical services to state prisoners since New Jersey privatized its inmate health care system in 1996. The state Treasury Department notified CMS that it planned to replace it with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. CMS, whose contract expired, had sought a 4.73% increase to cover costs associated with caring for the 27,600 inmates in state prisons and an additional 14,000 inmates being held in county facilities until a state cell is available. The move ends a contentious 11-year relationship with CMS that was launched during the-Gov. Whitman's push to privatize government services. It comes months after the state auditor and the state inspector general issued separate reports critical of the company. Treasury spokesman Tom Vinz said the state believes the new arrangement will "improve both the bottom line as well as services."
April 5 - Fifteen current and former inmates at Young Correctional Institution filed a federal lawsuit alleging their medical care while behind bars was not only negligent but amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. In at least one incident in 2006, a CMS nurse used the same needle on multiple inmates, perhaps all 15, to draw blood and inject medicine, exposing all to blood-borne diseases including hepatitis C and possibly HIV/AIDS. At least three allege they have contracted hepatitis and possibly other illnesses since that incident.
Corrections Corporation of America
March 31 - Hawaii lawmakers have tentatively approved a bill ordering an audit of two CCA facilities in the wake of national media accounts alleging that the huge private prison company misrepresented statistical data to make it appear that CCA facilities had fewer violent acts and other problems than was actually the case. Hawaii pays CCA more than $50 million a year to house more than 2,000 men and women convicts in CCA prisons in Arizona and Kentucky. Senate Bill 2342 calls for the State Auditor to conduct performance audits of two of the three Mainland prisons that house Hawaii inmates, including reviews of food, medical, drug treatment, vocational and other services provided to Hawaii inmates. The audit also would scrutinize the way the state Department of Public Safety oversees the private prisons and enforces the terms of the state's contract with CCA. According to the bill, there has never been an audit of the private Mainland prisons that Hawaii has contracted with to house the state's inmates, despite the fact that deaths and serious injuries have occurred at several of the contract prisons on the Mainland. Time Magazine interviewed former CCA senior quality assurance manager Ronald T. Jones, who said CCA General Counsel Gus Puryear IV ordered staff to classify violent incidents such as inmate disturbances, escapes and sexual assaults as if they were less serious events to make the company performance appear to be better than it was. Jones said more detailed reports about the prison incidents were prepared for internal CCA use, and were not released to clients. CCA denied the allegations, which Time published as Puryear is being considered for a post as a federal judge.
April 2 - Five inmates at the privately run Marion County Jail II in Indiana filed a class-action lawsuit based on claims of improper medical treatment and access to medication, unsafe and inhumane conditions, and a broken grievance process. The suit names Corrections Corporation of America and Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson, who oversees CCA's contract to run the jail. The medium-security jail, which houses 1,043 inmates, serves as an auxillary to the county-run Marion County Jail. Attorney Paul Ogden also filed a suit against CCA in January on claims of dangerous work conditions and racial discrimination against several black nurses. That suit also raised concerns about the handling of medications for inmates, with some given incorrect medication and some denied prescription drugs.
Cornell
March 31 - More than eight months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials removed 600 detainees from an Albuquerque, New Mexico jail, they say they won't house immigrants there again. The federal immigration agency says it has enough space elsewhere for detainees arrested. ICE was housing hundreds of detainees awaiting deportation at the Regional Correctional Center. That facility faced allegations by immigrant lawyers and criticism by a federal judge of sub-par conditions. Complaints included sweltering heat inside, frozen food and poor medical attention. After the agency yanked all of its inmates last summer, an ICE official said he had 'serious doubts' about the ability of Cornell to provide a safe environment for detainees. Cornell officials say they've worked hard to improve the facility and meet ICE's requirements. The company will continue looking for other customers for the 993-bed facility, which it leases from Bernalillo County. The U.S. Marshals Office currently houses detainees at the jail.
April 3 - Eight immigrant teenagers held at a facility for unaccompanied minors filed a federal lawsuit claiming they were abused and denied access to attorneys. The teens from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Cuba were being held at the San Antonio facility run by Cornell under a contract with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. Undocumented minors caught by authorities in the U.S. fall under the care of ORR while their immigration cases are decided. Susan Watson, an attorney for Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, said the teens were beaten and subjected to other excessive force in violation of their constitutional rights. At least one teen was knocked unconscious, but complaints to facility administrators were ignored, according to the lawsuit. The allegations raised by the immigrant teens were not the first against Cornell. Arkansas fired Cornell from the operation of a juvenile facility in November 2006 after finding employees inappropriately injected youth with anti-psychotic medication to control behavior. An in September, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials removed 600 detainees from an Albuquerque, New Mexico facility (this incident is addressed in the March 31 Cornell entry), citing failure to maintain safety, health and well-being standards there.
The GEO Group
April 1 - Texas officials want to know how a convicted felon escaped from a GEO Group owned jail. No one noticed he was gone for a full day, even though an eyewitness to the escape immediately told two GEO guards. The women who witnessed the escape said she was taken aback by the guard's lack of urgency. "He never asked me if he was white, Hispanic, African American. I described the clothing," she said. "All he asked was, 'Was he wearing tennis shoes?'" The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force was notified the following day of the escape and launched a massive manhunt for Esequiel Pena. Pena was being held in an 8-story level room at the GEO Group Holding Jail when he escaped. It is believed Pena squeezed through a fence and then made his way to a fire escape and disappeared. A concerned citizen spotted Pena at an apartment complex and called the Boerne Police Department. Pena was arrested without incident at the apartment complex.
Prison Health Services
April 3 - A registered nurse with the city prison system has been charged in a hit-and-run accident that killed a 15-year-old girl. Michelle Johnson, 40, was charged with manslaughter, homicide by vehicle and related offenses. Johnson, who has worked for PHS since 2006, struck Mary Otto. Otto had been walking on a median when Johnson allegedly ran a red light, hit Otto and kept driving. The teen was transported to an area hospital, but she died shortly after arriving. The next day, witnesses led police to a 2006 Toyota Sequoia, with considerable front-end damage, parked in the prison parking lot. Police seized the vehicle and later tied it to Johnson, who is not the owner of the vehicle. Johnson was suspended from her job.
March 31, 2008
Hawaii: Audit of private prisons possible
State lawmakers today will consider ordering an audit of two Corrections Corporation of America facilities in the wake of national media accounts alleging that the huge private prison company misrepresented statistical data to make it appear that CCA facilities had fewer violent acts and other problems than was actually the case.
Hawai'i pays CCA more than $50 million a year to house more than 2,000 men and women convicts in CCA prisons in Arizona and Kentucky…
LINK - HonoluluAdvertiser.com
February 25, 2008
Hawaii inmates on lockdown in AZ private prison
Hawai'i inmates at the Red Rock Correctional Center in Arizona have been locked down for 10 days during a top-to-bottom shakedown of the prison prompted by two recent drug overdoses of Alaska inmates, according to the Hawai'i Department of Public Safety. About 65 Hawai'i inmates are housed at the private prison, but are kept separate from the Alaska prisoners, said Public Safety Deputy Director Tommy Johnson.
Teams provided by prison owner Corrections Corporation of America used drug dogs as part of the search of all staff, program, recreational, medical, kitchen and living areas. Investigators discovered three grams of black tar heroin and a list detailing prices within the prison for cigarettes, marijuana and other drugs, Johnson said.
LINK - HonoluluAdvertiser.com
February 18, 2008
Low-risk inmates could be returned to Hawaii
A new report says that about 150 low-risk Hawaii inmates held in mainland prisons could be returned to the islands.
Hawaii pays more than 50 million (M) dollars a year to house more than 2,000 state prison inmates in privately run correctional facilities in Arizona and Kentucky. The prisons are run by Corrections Corporation of America…
LINK - www.kpua.net
February 2, 2008
February 2, 2008: Privatization Update
An update on the true "cost" of private prisons in the United States.
Overall Privatization Issues
Feb. 1 - Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano wants to tighten up rules for the state's growing private-prison industry, which is virtually unregulated by the state. A legislative proposal drafted by the Governor's office and introduced by Republican Senator Robert Blendu would bar private prisons from importing murderers, rapists and some other dangerous or seriously ill felons to Arizona. It would also require the companies to share security and inmate information with state officials. "It is a matter of public safety," said Dennis Burke, Napolitano's chief of staff. "Other states are exporting their worst criminals to Arizona, and we can't even know what they are doing and what steps they are taking to protect Arizonans." But private prison officials and other industry supports say the bill could threaten the industry. "If you change the rules of the game midstream, were are going to resist it because we invested based on the current rules," said Tony Grande, senior vice for Corrections Corporation of America. Now, more than 9,000 felons from Alaska, Hawaii, Washington and other states and the federal government are housed in 6 of 11 privately run prisons in Arizona. But unlike other states, Arizona has no restrictions on the kind of out-of-state inmates that can be brought there. And private prison companies in Arizona are not required to share detailed information on inmates, staffing and security measures or have their facility design approved by state officials. Such requirements are in place in other states with significant private prisons. Of the 15 states that expressly authorize private prisons, Arizona is one of the least restrictive. Arizona laws require companies to carry insurance to cover law enforcement costs in cases of escape, notify state officials when they bring new prisoners into the state and return prisoners to their home states to be released. But there are no penalties if the companies don't comply and no way to check on releases. Blendu's bill would bring together several restrictions found in other states and give the state the ability to assess fines if the private companies don't comply.
Correctional Medical Services
Feb. 1 - Continued poor performance by the Delaware Department of Correction's medical vendor could hamper the department's efforts to get out from under supervision by the U.S. Justice Department, according to a new report by an independent monitor overseeing the state prison system. Correctional Medical Services, a private company Delaware pays millions of dollars a year to provide medical care to inmates, suffers from a "lack of stable and effective leadership," independent monitor Joshua Martin wrote. "Moreover, there has been consistent turnover at staff-level positions, and, at (Young Correctional Institution) in particular, there is a problem with staff insubordination that needs to be addressed because it affects inmate medical and mental health services negatively," Martin wrote in his report. "The monitoring team has also faced difficulty in receiving consistent and accurate information from CMS." While Martin found that the DOC has made some improvements, he concluded that many CMS staff lacked proper credentials or were working outside their areas of expertise. The monitoring team also found that for three months last year, no inmate at the Smyrna prison received a referral to an outside specialist because "the person who was assigned to schedule appointments for inmates was on sick leave, and CMS had failed to find a temporary replacement." Inmate medical files were found stashed in boxes, while others were out of date, doctored or missing. At the Baylor Women's Correctional Institution, a book used to keep track of inmates suffering from highly contagious flesh-eating bacteria was lost, the date irretrievable.
Corrections Corporation of America
Jan. 29 - Six black nurses in Indiana are suing the private prison company operating a Marion County jail, alleging they were fired or forced to leave their jobs because of racism or exposing medical practices that put inmates at risk. The 10-count complaint alleges Corrections Corporation of America retaliated against the six because they had complained to their supervisors that inmates did not receive prescribed medications, were given wrong medications or were given other patients' drugs to save money.
The suit alleges CCA created a racially hostile work environment in which one white supervisor wore clothing with a Confederate flag emblem and another white supervisor had a drawing in which black nurses were identified as "monkeys." The nurses also said they were forced to work in an unhealthy and dangerous work environment including being ordered to escort dangerous inmates and having to walk through sewage with garbage bags on their feet when the plumbing in a restroom overflowed. The lawsuit said the alleged actions occurred over the last two years.
Jan. 30 - The Washington Department of Corrections plans to stop sending inmates to private, out-of-state prisons and to begin shipping home the 1,200 inmates at those facilities this summer. The state prison system has rented out-of-state prison beds since 2003 to ease overcrowding, but the scheduled opening in January 2009 of the new Coyote Ridge prison will likely allow the Department of Corrections to keep all prisoners in state. According to DOC projections of bed capacity, about 300 inmates currently at private prisons run by CCA will be shipped home by November. By April
2009, 360 more will return, with the rest arriving by July 2009. Also the Legislature is considering a bill that would ban out-of-state transfers for inmates who are in regular contact with their families, or who participate in parent-teacher conferences. The out-of-state transfers have put DOC at odds with its own program to keep fathers connected with their children. Research has shown that inmates who keep close contact with their families have lower recidivism rates, and their children are less likely to be incarcerated. The out-of-state transfers also put more pressure on prisons because CCA will take only healthy, well-behaved inmates.
Jan. 31 - Hawaii prison officials hope to use federal money to build new tent-like structures to house up to 449 prison inmates on Maui, Kauai and the Big Island to ease overcrowding in state prisons and jails. The proposal amounts to the largest single expansion of the state prison system in twenty years. The housing would be 7,064-square-foot "Sprung Instant Structure" made from a membrane stretched over an aluminum skeleton. Each structure could house up to 64 inmates. Together those structures would provide housing for up to 256 men and 192 women inmates. The objective is to make more space available inside secure correctional facilities around the state.
Jan. 30 - An immigrant detention center that holds children with their families could double in population under an agreement between Williamson County and federal officials to add up to 250 female detainees. Since opening in 2006, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center has held immigrant families while they await decisions in their immigration cases. The 512-bed facility has 250 people living there, and the county's agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could add up to 250 noncriminal immigrant females in a separate area. The detention center has faced heavy criticism by protesters for what they call the wrongful imprisonment of children. It has also caused liability concerns for the county, after a guard was fired after he was accused of sexually assaulting a female detainee in May. County commissioners debated whether to keep their contract with the federal government and Corrections Corporation of America, the private company that owns and operates the facility. The contract expires Jan. 31, 2009. Commissioner Cynthia Long said she is comfortable adding more female detainees, saying new measures have been put in place to prevent future incidents. Some of those include more staff training and education on how to operate video and security equipment. The contract change surprised some residents opposed to the facility.
The GEO Group
Jan. 31 - A federal lawsuit was filed against the GEO Group, the Florida company that runs the jail in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and numerous other states. The suit listed a single plaintiff; Stephen Bussy, 53, a home health-care worker who was strip-searched after a drunken driving arrest last year. Bussy represents a class of people nationwide who were allegedly victimized by strip-searches for minor offenses in GEO Group jails, the suit says. The suit lists damages at $5 million, but lawyers say that is considered to be a baseline figure for that type of class-action suit. Last month three guards from George W. Hill Correctional Facility said all prisoners entering the facility were strip-searched, including people held for minor violations, such as failing to make child support payments or those held because they could not pay outstanding traffic tickets. Federal judges across the nation have ruled that blanket strip-search policies for people arrested for minor crimes violates the U.S. Constitution's protection from "unreasonable" search and seizure. Office from GEO Group would not comment on the suit. But in past interviews, GEO has refused to discuss the corporation's policy on strip searches. Some of the lawyers filing the suit have been working with a group of attorneys that won a $7.5 million settlement from Camden County for allegedly strip-searching thousands of people illegally in its prison. Two of the attorneys also sued the Philadelphia Corrections Department seeking $15 million for allegedly conducting more than 20,000 illegal searches. The suit is pending.
TransCor
Feb. 2 - A privately contracted guard is in jail after Bradford County, Florida deputies charged him with having sex with two inmates he was transporting. Shaun McFadden is charged with two counts of having sex with an inmate in custody. The incident began after McFadden, an armed guard who works for TransCor, took four prisoners to the county jail. McFadden returned a short time later and told authorities he needed to take the two women to a local hospital for physicals so they could be cleared for further transport. McFadden and the women, who were handcuffed and shackled, then left. A police report said the women and McFadden had planned the move. The women told police they intended to drink and smoke with McFadden, while one also planned to escape. The women told police McFadden had consensual sex with them at a motel. One of the women said she became fearful that McFadden might harm her and fled while he was in the shower. When police arrived, they found McFadden and the other woman still in the room.
January 30, 2008
Pop-Up “Insta Prisons” for Hawaii?
State prison officials hope to use federal money to build new tentlike structures to house up to 448 prison inmates on Maui, Kaua'i and the Big Island to ease overcrowding in state prisons and jails. The housing would be 7,064-square-foot "Sprung Instant Structures" made from a membrane stretched over an aluminum skeleton. Each structure could house up to 64 inmates, according to a letter from Gov. Linda Lingle to federal authorities…
LINK - HonoluluAdvertiser.com
