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| MDOC seeks to end Walnut Grove oversight |
| By clarionledger.com- Jerry Mitchell |
| Published: 04/24/2015 |
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A lawyer for the Mississippi Department of Corrections invited U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves today to visit Walnut Grove Correctional Facility to witness changes in the private prison himself. “You certainly can come,” said Gary Friedman. “I’m certainly not in a position to tell you that you can’t.” MDOC began laying out its case today for terminating a consent decree between the department and two civil rights covering the privately run prison. The ACLU in 2010 had joined the Southern Poverty Law Center and Jackson-based attorney Robert McDuff in suing MDOC over the conditions at the 1,260-bed prison in Leake County. Their federal court complaint alleged “barbaric, unconstitutional conditions” at the facility, which at the time was designated for youth also had started housing adult offenders. Read More. |
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