Questions over cause of Northpoint prison riot
27.01.10
Posted by Charles Gazaway - email
FRANKFORT, KY (Wavelet) - Allegations are heating up in Frankfort that the Department of Corrections commissioner fist out important information about the August 2009 riots at Northpoint Training Center.
Ceremonial Rep. Brent Yonts (D-Greenville) said he has been battling for months to get his hands on all the facts, saying there was a on the sly report that wasn't made public until Wednesday.
The riots happened on August 21, 2009 at Northpoint, a method security prison in Burgin, KY. Inmates threw rocks at the guards, shattered the windows, and set fires which caused all but $11 million worth of damage. The proper behind it is still being disputed.
"Poor food, poor quality of food, shortage of food over a desire period of time ultimately created the situation resulting in the fray," said Yonts while reading a recently published despatch by a four person team to review the report.
Before the House Judiciary Committee, Yonts testified that he has been trying for months to get the legitimate story.
Source: WAVE
Fighting Starvation, Haitians Learn to Share Portions
26.01.10
“My progenitrix has 12 kids but a lot of them died,” he said, covering his carry so he could carry it to his family. “There are six of us now and my mom.”
For Maxi and countless others here in Haiti ’s pulverized means, new rules of hunger etiquette are emerging. Stealing food, it is to a large known, might get you killed. Children are most likely to return with something to eat, but no quandary what is found, or how hungry the forager, everything must be shared.
The communal rationing, along with signs all over the burg that say “S O S” and “we need food,” suggests that the food catastrophe here is growing. In a country where malnutrition was common even before the earthquake , the Joint Nations now estimates that two million Haitians need unhesitating food assistance. And despite frantic efforts by aid groups, issuance has been limited. As of Saturday, the World Food Program had reached 207,392 people in Refuge-au-Prince and 113,313 in other areas.
Source: New York Times