Our 'On Prisons' columnist Anthony Ethers brings us his latest on a long history of contaminants in the water at Stateville. 'On March 5, Legionella bacteria was found right here in C-House, where I currently live.'
Janet E. Stout, a microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh and the president and director of the Special Pathogens Laboratory, which specializes indetection and control, told The Appeal that inspectors need to test multiple locations at a site to understand the full scale of the bacteria’s spread. Water testing at Stateville is haphazard at best. In January, the
In the 1990s through the mid-2000s, the water at Stateville contained high levels of lithium, and more than twice the level of radium permitted by federal guidelines. In 2000,the prison was violating federal limits for radium in the water; in 2003, it found Stateville had achieved compliance with those limits. But it wasn’t until the late 2000s that the prison changed water sources to our current well.
Local activists have been calling for greater oversight of the state’s prisons by calling for the Illinois Department of Public Health to create a task force for monitoring and investigating contaminated water in prison. Jennifer Vollen-Katz, the executive director of the John Howard Association, toldthat more oversight “is critical to improving the sanitation, hygiene, and safety issues that are rife within Illinois facilities.
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