Female inmate dies during transport; private contracted company being investigated

[davidn3600]

At age 54, Denise Isaacs suffered from a slew of ailments, including bipolar disorder, anxiety and chronic abdominal pain.

Yet Isaacs, who was wanted in Southwest Florida on a probation violation for shoplifting, was crammed into a stuffy transport van with 10 other shackled inmates for a nearly 1,000-mile trip from Kentucky to Punta Gorda.

“I knew she wouldn’t be be able to make a trip like that because of her weakness and pain,” said her daughter, Kallie Isaacs, of Lexington, Kentucky.

But her family never believed that the rigors of the journey might kill her. Isaacs earlier this month was found slumped over dead inside the van — operated by Tennessee-based Prisoner Transportation Services of America through a contract with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office — during a stop at a West Miami-Dade Taco Bell restaurant.

Her case offers a window into the little-publicized world of private inmate-transport companies. And it has now spurred a law enforcement investigation into whether the transport officers provided her with proper care and attention during the grueling two-day road trip.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article2287990.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. kick

[KentuckyWoman]

2. WTF? ????

We will ship a person 1000 miles because "probation violation on shoplifting" ????? How is that even cost effective?

Jesus effing Christ...... We'll spend a zillion bucks a day to incarcerate drug addicts but god forbid we spend one thin dime on treatment.

Follow the money.

[TheVisitor]

3. People who put money before human life disgust me on so many levels...

This is a problem all too common in our society

[JimDandy]

4. Her probation violation(s):

She hadn't completed 200 hours of community service (how much did she have left to do-1 hr...10hrs?) and owed $608 in court fines. For that she had to die? And then for her to encounter the almost too common 'no meds/too low dose meds' problem happening in the prisons (especially private prisons)is just awful.

[lpbk2713]

5. She may have stolen from WalMart.

Heaven forbid.




Edit: I just read the link. I hope the Walton family (assholes) sleeps good tonight.