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The companies operate prisoner transport vehicles ranging in size from four-person automobiles to buses that can transport thirty-five people. [3] Since 2012, at least five people have died on private extradition vans operated by Prisoner Transportation Services, leading to a Justice Department investigation. [4]
The Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS), nicknamed "Con Air", [1] is a United States Marshals Service airline charged with the transportation of persons in legal custody between prisons, detention centers, courthouses, and other locations. It is the largest prison transport network in the world. [2]
Specific prisoner transport restraints (e.g. Smith & Wesson model 1850 transport restraint) [3] are combinations which consist of a pair of handcuffs, attached by a longer chain to a pair of leg irons. When being placed in such transport restraints, the prisoner will still have the possibility to manage normal steps, but is prevented from ...
The Arkansas-based private prisoner transport service settled a $625,000 class action lawsuit in September, which alleged the company subjected inmates to “cruel and unusual” conditions during ...
A Texas truck driver is facing jailtime after being charged with the deaths of 53 illegal aliens after transporting them in poor conditions resulting in death.
An agent of the executive of the state demanding extradition must appear to receive the prisoner, which must occur within 30 days from time of arrest, or the prisoner may be released. Some states allow longer waiting periods, of up to 90 days. Cases of kidnapping by a parent to another state see automatic involvement by the US Marshals Service.
Nov. 2—SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A former prisoner transport officer pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to violating a detainee's civil rights by sexually assaulting her at a stop in Joplin.
Prisoner transport vehicles may be operated by police services (see paddywagon), correctional services, field officers, court services, federal agencies such as the United States Marshals Service, or be contracted to private security companies. Prison buses were widely used in the late 1900s to transport prisoners, especially to state prisons ...