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Occupying outside CCA’s Stewart Detention Center, Lumpkin, GA 18 November 2011

Want to do something to oppose privatization of prisons, but can’t be everywhere?
You can help online Friday.



Immigrants For Sale posted

Join The Virtual Vigil and Occupation Shut Down Stewart

On November 18th Brave New Foundation’s Cuéntame and a coalition of
organizations along with families and friends of victims of for-profit
detention will be occupying with a powerful vigil the outside of the
largest private detention facility in the nation – Corrections Corporation
of America’s Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.
You can join them virtually — your voice is our most
important tool in fighting back — by leaving your own
name and a powerful message which will be read and/or written on a wall
at the event & in memory of:

Follow

the link
for details.

Oh, and
we don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Spend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.

PS: Owed to Cheryl Ann Fillekes.

Medical issues at McRae warrant closing CCA private prison —ACLU

Azadeh Shahshahani wrote for Huffpost 18 August 2011,

License to Abuse? Time for Bureau of Prisons to Sever Ties With CCA

Last week, the ACLU of Georgia submitted

comments
to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to ask that the agency not renew its
contract with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for operation of
the McRae Correctional Facility.



McRae is located in Telfair County, Georgia. The prison is owned by CCA,
which purchased it in 2000. McRae currently houses a population of low
security, adult male, primarily non-citizen prisoners. The contract
between CCA and the BOP is set to expire in November 2012.

Why? Lack of medical treatment for prisoners, among other reasons.
For example:

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Private prisons unaccountable —ACLU

Found on the
ACLU blog of rights.


Azadeh Shahshahani wrote for the AJC 11 June 2009,

Private prisons for immigrants lack accountability, oversight



On March 11, a 39-year-old man held in detention at the Stewart Detention
Center, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in
southwest Georgia, died at a hospital in Columbus.

That’s in Lumpkin, west of Americus, south of Columbus.

To this day, the immediate cause of Roberto Martinez Medina’s death
remains unclear (a press release pronounced the cause of death as
“apparent natural causes”).



Last month, Leonard Odom, 37, died at the Wheeler County Correctional
Facility in south-central Georgia.

That’s in Alamo, GA, between Macon, Tifton, and Savannah.

Both facilities are operated by Corrections Corp. of America, which
has a contract with the Department of Homeland Security to operate the
Stewart center and one with the Georgia Department of Corrections to
operate the one in Wheeler County.

So, what happened?

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