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Galraedia

(5,331 posts) Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:50 PM Apr 2012

Billion dollar GEO prison-for-profit group abandons its Mississippi 'cesspool

Behind the barbed wire around our prisons is a cesspool, a word Federal Judge Carlton Reeves used to describe conditions in the Walnut Grove Youth Detention Facility (WGYDF), in Mississippi. NPR reports he stated:

the youth prison "has allowed a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions to germinate, the sum of which places the offenders at substantial ongoing risk."

Behind those wires, children as young as 13 are kept in a state of fear. Rape; beatings; sexual abuse from guards, staff and older inmates; asphyxiation with toxic chemical sprays; stabbings; and death is the daily portion of "rehabilitation" meted out to any child unfortunate enough to wind up in Walnut Grove.

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit C.B., et al. v. Walnut Grove Correctional Authority, et al. with co-counsel Robert B. McDuff and The National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation, on behalf of young men incarcerated in Walnut Grove, which sparked a full investigation by the Department of Justice in 2010. Settled in March of this year, the DOJ stated in its report.

Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/29/1086699/-Billion-dollar-GEO-prison-for-profit-group-abandons-its-Mississippi-cesspool-

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Billion dollar GEO prison-for-profit group abandons its Mississippi 'cesspool (Original Post) Galraedia Apr 2012 OP

America needs to end the disgraceful practice of privatizing prisons think Apr 2012 #1

America needs to end the disgraceful practice of gopiscrap Apr 2012 #5

+1 freshwest Apr 2012 #7

An excellent diary on DailyKos. Uncle Joe Apr 2012 #2

Thanks for this important thread. Private prisons are a disgrace to our Nation. Scuba Apr 2012 #3

what is the demographic breakdown there? grasswire Apr 2012 #4

I can't even think of the words to react to this story at any level. Thanks for posting. (nt) enough Apr 2012 #6

Heartrending. freshwest Apr 2012 #8

Take down the fences, open it up and use it as a school SoCalDem Apr 2012 #9

think

(11,641 posts)

1. America needs to end the disgraceful practice of privatizing prisons

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:56 PM

Apr 2012

shameful

gopiscrap

(24,778 posts)

5. America needs to end the disgraceful practice of

Reply to think (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:53 PM

Apr 2012

privatizing anything. FUCK ALL BUSINESS, it is the root of all evil in this nation and the most dangerous and pervasive malady afflicting American life!!!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

7. +1

Reply to gopiscrap (Reply #5)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:03 PM

Apr 2012

Uncle Joe

(65,537 posts)

2. An excellent diary on DailyKos.

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:35 PM

Apr 2012

Thanks for the thread, Galraedia.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

3. Thanks for this important thread. Private prisons are a disgrace to our Nation.

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 05:48 PM

Apr 2012

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

4. what is the demographic breakdown there?

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 06:19 PM

Apr 2012

99 percent people of color?

white guards?

what?

enough

(13,773 posts)

6. I can't even think of the words to react to this story at any level. Thanks for posting. (nt)

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 07:46 PM

Apr 2012

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

8. Heartrending.

Reply to enough (Reply #6)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:04 PM

Apr 2012

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)

9. Take down the fences, open it up and use it as a school

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:39 PM

Apr 2012

or tear it down & send the bill to the corporation that put it there

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