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NY Times Highlights Dangers of Private Prison Vans
A front-page New York Times story headlined “On Private Prisoner Vans, Long Road of Neglect” examined the little-known for-profit firms providing interstate transport in large vans for persons being extradited to face out-of-state court hearings or shuttled to distant prisons.
The companies give law enforcement agencies an alternative to assigning their own deputies to handle extradition of fugitives or suspects, but the business faces growing claims its providers are ill-trained, poorly equipped or otherwise unsuited to providing efficient or even safe service.
The July 6 Times article, jointly prepared by a reporter for the newspaper and a staff writer for The Marshall Project, a non-profit newsgroup on criminal justice, recounts deaths and serious injuries suffered by private extradition service passengers. It began with Steven Galack, a 46-year-old Florida man who in July 2012 was arrested on an out-of-state child-support warrant and ordered to appear at a hearing in an Ohio county over a thousand miles away.
The county ordered
The companies give law enforcement agencies an alternative to assigning their own deputies to handle extradition of fugitives or suspects, but the business faces growing claims its providers are ill-trained, poorly equipped or otherwise unsuited to providing efficient or even safe service.
The July 6 Times article, jointly prepared by a reporter for the newspaper and a staff writer for The Marshall Project, a non-profit newsgroup on criminal justice, recounts deaths and serious injuries suffered by private extradition service passengers. It began with Steven Galack, a 46-year-old Florida man who in July 2012 was arrested on an out-of-state child-support warrant and ordered to appear at a hearing in an Ohio county over a thousand miles away.
The county ordered
