With the recent spate of prison bus crashes, it's time to look into the operating and safety methods being employed when prisoners are in transit. In January, a prison bus slid off a slick Texas highway, skidded down a hill and crashed into a freight train, killing eight shackled prisoners and two correctional officers; and just this summer in Arizona, a prison bus carrying 50 inmates slammed into a rolled-over semi truck trailer. No one was killed in the crash, but 20 prisoners and a guard were injured. As our nation's politicians, from the president down, contemplate overhauling our country's criminal justice policies, a serious look needs to be taken at how prisoners are transported....
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