Hear this on the news this morning, and read an article on it in the DA.

“During the day there is one officer for 550 inmates,” said Kent Gilkerson, a correctional officer at the prison and the local president of the Council of Prison Locals. “At night there’s two.” Gilkerson also said at times, inmates are left unattended.
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“The funny thing is, there was an outrage that at Abu Ghraib (the military prison in Iraq) one soldier was watching 500 inmates. They (the Bush administration) need to look at their own federal prison system,” Glover said.

What is most interesting is that we wouldn’t be hearing about this, except for the fact that Alderson Federal Prison Camp is getting a rather high profile prisoner.