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Transportation of Prisoners

Life Inside August 15, 2019
The Federal Prisoner Transit System—aka “Diesel Therapy”—Is Hell
Highlights of prisoner travel include gang fights, overflowing toilets and two weeks shackled to a neo-Nazi.
By Michael Rothenberg
Johnny Smith, in an image prepared by his family for his funeral. Mr. Smith had a variety of medical conditions, and his doctor warned that extradition could be dangerous, yet he was still placed in a van to be driven to Florida from Kentucky.
Feature March 29, 2019
A Man Died in a Private Prison Van. The Company Says: Not Our Problem
How the dangerous prisoner transport business has dodged responsibility for “gross negligence.”
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A former Prisoner Transportation Services of America van at an automotive repair shop in Smyrna, Tenn., in 2016.
News February 28, 2019
Members of Congress Seek Answers From Prisoner Transport Company
Officials demand details about deaths and sexual abuse on transport vans.
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Escaped inmates Darren Walp, 37, left, and Andrew Foy, 32, in a surveillance video from a Quik Trip store in Sapulpa, Okla., on August 23, 2017.
News August 25, 2017
The Great Escape? Par for the Course.
“These guys were absolutely jaw-dropping in their incompetence.”
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A former Prisoner Transportation Services van at an automotive repair shop in Smyrna, Tenn., in 2016.
News June 6, 2017
Justice Department Probes Alleged Abuses on Prison Transport Vans
Almost a year after our story, a preliminary investigation looks closely at one case.
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The rear holding compartment of a Prisoner Transportation Services van.
News April 26, 2017
Congressman Calls for Probe into Private Prisoner Transport
Rep. Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat, keeps up pressure on the House.
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Kevin Eli’s death on March 7 was at least the fifth on a PTS vehicle in five years.
News March 23, 2017
Another Death on a For-Profit Extradition Vehicle
Federal officials promised last year to look into the mistreatment of detainees, but little has changed.
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The updated rear holding compartment of a Prisoner Transportation Services van now has a video camera in the ceiling.
News December 7, 2016
Federal Official Urges Probe of ‘Abuse’ on Private Prisoner Transport
It is the latest call for an investigation of the for-profit extradition industry.
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Life Inside July 7, 2016
The Horrible Things I Saw Driving a Van Packed with Prisoners
Dehydrated, hungry prisoners defecating on themselves.
By Fernando Colon as told to
Feature July 6, 2016
Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport
Tens of thousands of people every year are packed into vans run by for-profit companies with almost no oversight.
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