Female inmates' move to Alabama prison delayed
September 23, 2013 7:34 AM   Subscribe

Female inmates' move to Alabama prison delayed “This transfer would nearly eliminate federal prison beds for women in the northeastern United States and dramatically disrupt the lives of these female inmates and the young children they often leave behind,” Murphy said in a recent statement announcing the delay. Murphy and 10 other senators from the region have asked the Bureau of Prisons to explain the reasons for the transfer, and whether it will hurt inmates’ access to education and legal aid. The senators — nine Democrats and two independents from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont — are also questioning the costs of the transfer and of converting the Danbury facility into one for male prisoners. In June, the director of the Bureau of Prisons, Charles Samuels Jr, encouraged federal inmates to stay in touch with their children as a key to helping them eventually re-enter society. “There is no substitute for seeing their child, looking them in the eye, and letting them know that although incarcerated, they care about their children,” Samuels said then. The senators said that will be more difficult to achieve for the inmates in the Northeast because Aliceville is more than 1,000 miles away from Hartford, New York and Boston, and not near a major airport. The closest train station is 45 miles away in Tuscaloosa.
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This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, this is sort of interesting stuff but one link to a short-ish article plus no background/context makes this on the thin side for a post. Maybe see if there's some additional resources you could fold into a somewhat more elaborate post about the situation and history/policy side of it and try again? -- cortex



 

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