{"id":29593,"date":"2012-05-11T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=29593"},"modified":"2012-05-11T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T17:45:45","slug":"juvenile-inmates-in-privately-run-prisons-face-severe-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/05\/11\/juvenile-inmates-in-privately-run-prisons-face-severe-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Inmates in Privately Run Prisons Face Severe Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-051112\/2012_05_11_owens.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-051112\/2012_05_11_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/walnut_grove.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Privately run prisons in the United States are today among the fastest growing sector of the prison industry, housing well over a hundred thousand inmates. What most of us may not know, is that increasingly, juvenile offenders are being housed in such facilities, where a lack of accountability has led to serious violations of state and federal laws. <\/p>\n<p>Privately run prisons are big business. For example, GEO, the company that ran Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in Mississippi earned $14 million each year from that state. However, its juvenile inmates faced horrendous living conditions and abuse. The young men aged 13 to 22 were sexually abused by prison staff, and subjected to overuse of pepper spray, solitary confinement, rampant violence, inadequate medical and mental health treatment and a lack of rehabilitative programs. <\/p>\n<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU filed a federal civil rights lawsuit after investigations proved that prison conditions at Walnut Grove were barbaric. Even though GEO has ended its contract after settling a lawsuit, had its remaining contracts revoked, the state of Mississippi is looking for a new private company to manage three of prisons including Walnut Grove. <\/p>\n<p>While privately run prisons are touted as a way for states to save money, the growth in private prisons comes with a number of questions: how much money do they really save? And, even more importantly, how accountable are they regarding the conditions of inmates? <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST Jody Owens, managing attorney for the SPLC\u2019s Mississippi Office <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\">www.splcenter.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privately run prisons in the United States are today among the fastest growing sector of the prison industry, housing well over a hundred thousand inmates. What most of us may not know, is that increasingly, juvenile offenders are being housed in such facilities, where a lack of accountability has led to serious violations of state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}