Private prison staff accused of spying on inmates in toilets and showers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Former detainee Corey Donaldson claims CoreCivic staff at McRae correctional facility in Georgia peered at and made video recordings of immigrant inmates

Khushbu Shah
Wed 29 May 2019 02.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 29 May 2019 02.55 EDT

A former detainee at a prison for immigrants in rural Georgia alleges he and other detainees were the victims of sexual harassment and voyeurism by employees of CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest private prison contractors in the US.

Corey Donaldson, an Australian national, was held at the McRae correctional facility in McRae-Helena, Georgia, for a handful of months of his five-year sentence before he was deported to Australia in July 2018.

Between September 2017 and February 2018, he alleged in a statement to the Guardian: “McRae staff were physically peering upon immigrant inmates in the toilets and showers and knowingly recording video streams of inmates taking showers and using the toilets 24/7.”

Before his removal proceedings to Australia, Donaldson filed multiple informal and formal grievances to CoreCivic, according to documents obtained by the Guardian, citing the Prison Rape Elimination Act (Prea) and its policy on sexual harassment.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/29/private-prison-staff-voyeurism-corecivic-georgia

[trev]

1. Authority can bring out pecadilloes.

When I was in Army school, my instructor liked to interview me while I was in the shower (he was fully dressed). I learned a few years later that he had been busted from E-7 to E-5.

Payback's a bitch.

[Aristus]

2. Which Army school was that? And what was he interviewing you for?

When I was going through tanker school, the drill sergeants would dismiss us from PT, and we wouldn't see them again until chow formation. They didn't snoop around in the showers or the toilets. We got our stuff done, then went to breakfast.

[trev]

3. This was AIT at Fort Gordon, GA. Signal School.

I said "interview," but basically he was passing on information that he could have given me afterward in his office. My memory of it is that he actually leered at me.

I had no such problems in Basic.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[Marcuse]

5. Soon to be webporn.

[gopiscrap]

6. typical of almost all law enforcement types