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Female Nevada inmates petition for state takeover of prison

CARSON CITY, NV, April 12

Nearly half of the 464 inmates at a privately run state women's prison in North Las Vegas have signed a petition stating conditions at the prison are unacceptable and the state should take over.

The 215 inmates are complaining about poor food and medical care, staffers who aren't properly trained, inadequate grievance procedure and missing personal items at the prison now run by Corrections Corporation of America.

The petition was sent to Governor Guinn, members of the Legislature and the state Department of Corrections.

CC spokesman Steve Owen calls the inmates' allegations, "baseless and absurd." He says there is a state monitor at the prison daily and inmates are free to voice their complaints.

Guinn believes that the state should run the prisons. But Greg Bortolin, spokesman for the governor, says the Legislature has a big voice in whether it should be the state or a private company.

(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)