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Veteran XV
Caged in van No. 1304 | Sun Journal
Cliffs:
- Quinn was sentenced at the end of November on a 2011 forgery charge stemming from having written checks on her mother's account without permission. She had violated her probation from that case by using alcohol and failing to report to her probation officer, among other violations.
- She was being transported to face probation violations from a five-year-old forgery charge.
- The private transport company, US Prisoner Transport, transported Quinn by van from Kissimmee, Florida to Auburn, Maine. The trip lasted seven days.
- The van's two drivers carried handguns and Tasers. They spoke little English. They wouldn't stop when Quinn begged to use a bathroom.
- She was locked in a cage smaller than a dog cage.
- They would not stop for restroom breaks for more than 12 hours at times.
- When her period started, Quinn was forced to sit in her blood-soaked pants for hours before one of the drivers finally tossed her a pad. She was told to pee in a plastic bag and, at one point, had to use the wrapper from her $2 burger as a toilet in full view of strange men, who, like Quinn, were bound and locked in the back of the van, but not caged.
- The stench from her bodily fluids and solids that soiled and matted her clothes made her gag. She vomited repeatedly until her stomach was empty. And she was forced to sit in that, too.
- One of the male passengers had a seizure, and when the other passengers tried to get the drivers attention, he responded by braking, accelerating, and swerving sporadically, jettisoning the unsecured passengers, including the one having the seizure, all over the van.
- "I was freezing," she said, "I . . . literally never, ever felt cold like that in my life. I couldn't get warm. I couldn't move. I couldn't do nothing to make it stop. It was like pain. The cold was literally painful." Eventually, she said, she managed to flip a switch in her mind on the persistent pain, turning it to numbness.
- One passenger hadn't been medically cleared for travel, and suffered a heart attack.
- Androscoggin County District Attorney Andrew Robinson said Friday his office would immediately stop using the Tennessee-based private transportation company U.S. Prisoner Transport unless new allegations of mistreatment of prisoners are disproved.
- US Prisoner Transport have killed 10 people since 2001 by transporting them. Many of these passengers had not been formally sentenced at the time of transport.
Company seems alive and well...
Home Page ǀ U.S. Prisoner Transport
I guess that's what happens when you privatize the penial system. Reminds me of the Juvenile Court scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania...
Cliffs:
- Quinn was sentenced at the end of November on a 2011 forgery charge stemming from having written checks on her mother's account without permission. She had violated her probation from that case by using alcohol and failing to report to her probation officer, among other violations.
- She was being transported to face probation violations from a five-year-old forgery charge.
- The private transport company, US Prisoner Transport, transported Quinn by van from Kissimmee, Florida to Auburn, Maine. The trip lasted seven days.
- The van's two drivers carried handguns and Tasers. They spoke little English. They wouldn't stop when Quinn begged to use a bathroom.
- She was locked in a cage smaller than a dog cage.
- They would not stop for restroom breaks for more than 12 hours at times.
- When her period started, Quinn was forced to sit in her blood-soaked pants for hours before one of the drivers finally tossed her a pad. She was told to pee in a plastic bag and, at one point, had to use the wrapper from her $2 burger as a toilet in full view of strange men, who, like Quinn, were bound and locked in the back of the van, but not caged.
- The stench from her bodily fluids and solids that soiled and matted her clothes made her gag. She vomited repeatedly until her stomach was empty. And she was forced to sit in that, too.
- One of the male passengers had a seizure, and when the other passengers tried to get the drivers attention, he responded by braking, accelerating, and swerving sporadically, jettisoning the unsecured passengers, including the one having the seizure, all over the van.
- "I was freezing," she said, "I . . . literally never, ever felt cold like that in my life. I couldn't get warm. I couldn't move. I couldn't do nothing to make it stop. It was like pain. The cold was literally painful." Eventually, she said, she managed to flip a switch in her mind on the persistent pain, turning it to numbness.
- One passenger hadn't been medically cleared for travel, and suffered a heart attack.
- Androscoggin County District Attorney Andrew Robinson said Friday his office would immediately stop using the Tennessee-based private transportation company U.S. Prisoner Transport unless new allegations of mistreatment of prisoners are disproved.
- US Prisoner Transport have killed 10 people since 2001 by transporting them. Many of these passengers had not been formally sentenced at the time of transport.
Company seems alive and well...
Home Page ǀ U.S. Prisoner Transport
I guess that's what happens when you privatize the penial system. Reminds me of the Juvenile Court scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania...
