{"id":1360,"date":"2011-10-22T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T10:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/private-prison-operator-sued-for-sexual-abuse.html"},"modified":"2011-10-22T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T10:36:18","slug":"private-prison-operator-sued-for-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/private-prison-operator-sued-for-sexual-abuse.html","title":{"rendered":"Private prison operator sued for sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"Yes, it&#8217;s CCA, the same company that wants to build a private prison in\nLowndes County, Georgia, sued for sexual abuse at its immigration\ndetention center in Taylor, Texas.\nCCA runs the ICE center in Georgia, too.\n<p>\nElise Foley wrote for Huff Post yesterday,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/10\/21\/immigrant-detainees-sexual-abuse-report_n_1024436.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009\">\nImmigrant Detainees Report Nearly 200 Instances Of Sexual Abuse<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/10\/21\/immigrant-detainees-sexual-abuse-report_n_1024436.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"285\" height=\"119\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/383213\/thumbs\/r-IMMIGRANT-DETENTION-large570.jpg\"><\/a>\nMore than 180 sexual abuse complaints have been reported in immigration\ndetention centers since 2007, according to government documents obtained\nby the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a class-action suit\nfiled this week&#8230;.\n<p>\nAll three women in the ACLU lawsuit were held for a time in the T. Don\nHutto Residiental Center in Taylor, Texas, a 512-bed detention center\nprivately run on a government contract by private prison giant Corrections\nCorporation of America.\n<p>\nThe suit targets Corrections Corporation of America along with three\nICE officials, a former facility manager of the Hutto facility, and a\nformer Hutto guard named Donald Dunn, who was charged last year with\nassaulting five women and has been accused of abusing more.\n<\/blockquote>\nThis is also the same CCA that runs a prison in Idaho\ncommonly known as <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/10\/do-we-want-a-gladiator-school-prison-in-lowndes-county.html\">\nGladiator School<\/a> because it has twice the rate of assaults\nas other prisons in that state.\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, it&#8217;s CCA, the same company that wants to build a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia, sued for sexual abuse at its immigration detention center in Taylor, Texas. 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