BIA director faults management for jails
Thursday, July 26, 2007
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Management, not rank and file employees, are to blame for deficiencies in Indian Country jails, the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs said.
Pat Ragsdale was in Billings, Montana, for a BIA corrections conference. He said the agency is still addressing issues raised by an Inspector General's investigation into detention facilities.
"That was an indictment of the management; that was not an indictment of the rank and file who serve every day," Ragsdale told The Billings Gazette.
In Montana, the detention center on the Blackfeet Nation was considered one of the worst. The Blackfeet Nation has relinquished control of the facility to the BIA.
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