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| Private Prisons Are Losing |
| By huffingtonpost.com- Rashad Robinson |
| Published: 05/29/2014 |
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It is no secret that for-profit prison companies are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses of the past 30 years. In 2012, the Department of Justice found that guards at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility (managed by GEO Group) routinely pepper sprayed and viciously beat youth for no reason. The DOJ report exposed a "deliberate indifference" amongst GEO group staff, and the company's complete disregard for rehabilitation. There were zero mental health crisis services, even at a time when almost a quarter of the youth were suicidal. The report also revealed a pattern of "brutal rape" by guards among the worst in the country. A federal judge eventually ordered all kids under 20 be removed from the prison, after finding the facility to be a "a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts...a picture of such horror as should be unrealized anywhere in the civilized world." The neglect and torture of private prisons are well documented among ever-increasing lawsuits, research, and news reports; the conditions at Walnut Grove are the norm, not the exception. Read More. |
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