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HONOLULU (AP) - Women inmates from Hawaii have been moved from a prison in Oklahoma to a private facility in Colorado because they were not receiving programs the state was paying for.
State records show that contract monitors with the state Department of Public Safety had urged officials as early as June 2003 to remove 64 women inmates from the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in Oklahoma because they were not receiving required drug treatment and other services.
The situation continued, and the four-member monitoring team reported in last March that the inmates were being "warehoused" with inadequate services being provided.
The inmates were moved in August to a privately run prison in Brush, Colorado, where they are receiving programs.
The state has not tried to recover the one-point-three (m)million dollars paid to Oklahoma for the programs that were not delivered.
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