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Colombian prisoners strain D.C. Jail; City seeks federal funds for security
The Washington Times ^ | 2009-07-02 | Gary Emerling

Posted on 07/03/2009 10:45:31 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

Two of the District's top law enforcement officials are warning that dozens of federal prisoners with ties to Colombian rebel groups and international drug rings are a threat to security at the D.C. Jail and pose a risk of escape into the surrounding neighborhood.

The concerns have led city officials to ask the federal government for more money to provide security for the increasing numbers of prisoners, who are being held at the District's corrections campus in Southeast.

Devon Brown, director of the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC), outlined concerns about such prisoners in a U.S. District Court filing last month. The June 18 filing was part of a federal court battle over prisoner housing between the city and attorneys for a group of Colombian inmates indicted as being part of a cocaine ring.

Mr. Brown said an "unprecedented number" of city inmates - 60 in all - are thought to have ties to a Colombian drug organization.

Such prisoners must be kept separate from each other and "could easily use their skills and resources to coordinate unrest, violence or escape," Mr. Brown said.

Of the 60 inmates, at least 20 are thought to be members of paramilitary groups that include the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), both of which have been designated foreign terrorist organizations by the State Department.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: auc; drugcartels; drugs; farc; jails; narcoterrorists; terrorists; washingtondc; wod

1 posted on 07/03/2009 10:45:33 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

Deport their asses then.


2 posted on 07/03/2009 10:48:11 AM PDT by RockinRight (Obama: Math is hard, so we just make sh-t up.)
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To: RockinRight; rabscuttle385

Or just shoot them...


3 posted on 07/03/2009 10:48:32 AM PDT by RockinRight (Obama: Math is hard, so we just make sh-t up.)
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To: RockinRight

No, make them pay for their crimes and then deport them.


4 posted on 07/03/2009 10:50:39 AM PDT by kabar
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To: rabscuttle385

Send them to Bermuda.


5 posted on 07/03/2009 10:53:17 AM PDT by gigster
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To: kabar

What? Deport 2012 Obizmal voters??? ACORN would be at the jail steps in a heart beat.

6 posted on 07/03/2009 10:55:09 AM PDT by IrishPennant (RLT = Radical Left Terrorism...feel it????)
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To: rabscuttle385

Don’t let zero know he will let them go.


7 posted on 07/03/2009 11:09:08 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: rabscuttle385
Well, it IS the District of Columbia.....
8 posted on 07/03/2009 11:14:36 AM PDT by Castlebar
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