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| Ga. correctional facility to become women's prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/22/2004 |
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Georgia prison officials are working on a plan to turn the Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto into a women's prison, according to a report in last Friday's edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Most of Arrendale's 1,200 adult male prisoners will be sent to prisons through the state and its 11 juveniles, ages 13 to 16, will remain at Arrendale, segregated from the women inmates, the newspaper reported. Following reports of rape and violence in the prison, lawyers for the Southern Center for Human Rights filed an emergency motion asking that the court remove inmates under age 21, stop taking in new inmates and repair locks on prison doors. U.S. District Court Senior Judge Robert L. Vining Jr. ruled that the attorneys did not show "a substantial likelihood" that their request would solve the problem. The center has documented dozens of incidents of fights, beatings and sexual assaults, claiming the department is failing to protect inmates. "Under review and recommendation of my staff, I am changing the mission of Arrendale to a prison which primarily houses female inmates," Corrections Commissioner James Donald wrote in a document expected to be filed on Friday, the newspaper said. Prison officials said the moves are motivated by economics as much as the need to remedy problems at the Alto prison. The newspaper said there are as many as 140 prisoners between ages 17 and 20 considered too vulnerable to enter the adult prison population. The plan would be to house them separately from the juveniles at the prison compound in Habersham County. |
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