2007-01-11 12:22:44 · 4 answers · asked by byalwayz 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Prisoners are routinely transferred for any number of reasons.
For starters, people are transferred as their security status is changed (level).
Second, they are transferred so that prisoners can't organize -- a changing population can't find leaders and mount a breakout, or develop smuggling rings, etc
Third, new prisons are built, overcrowding happens, etc.
Fourth, a prisoner might be transferred for his/her own safety.
Those are the ones that come to mind....
For the record, guards get transferred around too.
2007-01-11 12:33:26 · answer #1 · answered by geek49203 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several reasons - but the inmate doesn't have to be told any of them. Could be something "simple" like prison overcrowding, or something more complicated like an extradition. Could be severe medical issues and needing to be closer to a prison hospital (not all federal prisons are), but, the medical issue has to be REALLY severe for the prison officials to care about it/the inmate. Could be the inmate has received death threats or has been the victim of inmate violence, and relocation within the initial facility is not an option. Could be the inmate has a lot of money and has been able to buy his/her way into a low-risk ("country club") facility via high-priced legal maneuvering.
2007-01-11 20:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by happy heathen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plenty of reasons, but the main one that pops into mind would be that he or she signed up for and was accepted into some kind of program which his current prison did not have.
2007-01-11 20:29:35 · answer #3 · answered by tripsnpig 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋