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Stonewalling is normal

 Reporting the prison system
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  December 13, 2006
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Attorney General Steven Rowe’s office, in addition to fighting off Freedom of Access requests, apparently sees its role, to go by its actions, as defending whatever the Corrections Department wishes to do. Diane Sleek and her counterpart, Katherine Greason, the attorney for the Department of Health and Human Services, have prevented the transfer of the most mentally ill Supermax prisoner, Michael James, to the state’s Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta after a Knox County jury found him “not criminally responsible” for 10 assaults on guards and a judge had ordered him to Riverview. (See “Arbitrary Imprisonment,” July 21, by Lance Tapley.)

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