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1000s Of Immigrant Prisoners Moved After Texas Prison Protest

February 26, 2015 By Brian Sonenstein Leave a Comment

Nearly three thousand immigrant prisoners are being transferred to undisclosed federal facilities after a two-day demonstration against indecent living conditions and medical care left the Willacy County Regional Detention Facility in need of repairs.

Willacy is a private prison operated by the Management and Training Corporation (MTC), where thousands of inmates are housed in khaki-colored Kevlar domes. Located less than an hour north of the Mexico border in the town of Raymondville, Texas, the tent-city prison has been given the nickname Ritmo for its oppressive conditions and resemblance to Guantanamo Bay. It is one of thirteen private Criminal Alien Requirement facilities in the country receiving millions in taxpayer dollars to incarcerate immigrant offenders on behalf of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

The demonstration began on Friday morning when prisoners refused to leave their housing units for breakfast, telling guards they would not work or do their chores. “After speaking with the inmates, we learned some were unhappy with the medical services and were demonstrating to make their concerns known. The warden and other facility leaders met with the offenders to attempt to resolve their concerns and provide a resolution,” an MTC spokesperson later told reporters.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: Human Rights, immigration, prison reform, prisons, Texas

Early Release Law Unused As Ohio Prison Overcrowding Continues

February 5, 2015 By Brian Sonenstein 1 Comment

As prisoners, advocates and journalists warned of deteriorating conditions in Ohio’s prisons over the past year, the inmate population slowly crept back up to around 30% over capacity.

During that time, prisoners in the buckeye state were fed spoiled, inedible meals by the food contractor Aramark, sometimes tainted with maggots. They also suffered abuse and abysmal conditions at private prisons operated by Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), bad enough to inspire a 14-hour peaceful protest. Have the events of this past year finally generated enough misery and public scrutiny to pressure Ohio officials to act?

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: Aramark, Arizona Bureau of Prisons, California, Corizon Health Services, Corrections Corporation of America, Coshocton Tribune, food, healthcare, immigrants, John Kasich, Juvenile detention, Mayor de Blasio, Mayor John McNally, mental health, New York, New York City, Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, Ohio, Ohio Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, Preet Bharara, prison, Prison Overcrowding, prison reform, prisons, Private prison, protest, Rikers Island, sexual assault, solitary, solitary confinement, transparency, US Attorney for the Southern District of NY, Youngstown

The Authoritarianism Of The American Police State

February 3, 2015 By Matt Peppe Leave a Comment

Two days before Christmas, a “thug” launched an “unprovoked attack” on a female MTA employee on a Bronx subway platform, “choking her” and causing injuries, according to the Daily News. The “hulking brute” then fled the scene, “grinning as he made his may through the turnstile.”

The newspaper’s description conjures images of a fanatical psychopath, aggressively assaulting an innocent victim and showing a twisted pleasure in his deranged actions while escaping. Several days later the perpetrator was located, but he was not arrested. On Friday, more than a month later, police announced he will face only misdemeanor charges.

The perpetrator was allegedly discovered when he saw video of himself on the news and turned himself in, police said. Incidentally the man, 37-year-old Mirjan Lolja, is himself an NYPD policeman.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Ben Popper, Black Lives Matter, CounterPunch, Eric Garner, Facebook, Ferguson, history, I can't breathe, Jelani Henry, Joseph Lhota, Mike Brown, Mirjan Lolja, MTA, New York, New York City, New York Daily News, New York Police Department, New York Times, NYPD, police, police accountability, police brutality, police state, prison, prison reform, prisons, propaganda, racism, Raven Rakia, Rikers Island, Sam Mitrani, social media, Tamir Rice, The Verge, Truthout, William Glaberson

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