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

[Galraedia]

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-

[think]

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

shameful

[gopiscrap]

5. America needs to end the disgraceful practice of

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]

7. +1

[Uncle Joe]

2. An excellent diary on DailyKos.

Thanks for the thread, Galraedia.

[Scuba]

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

[grasswire]

4. what is the demographic breakdown there?

99 percent people of color?

white guards?

what?

[enough]

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

[freshwest]

8. Heartrending.

[SoCalDem]

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

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