{"id":1605,"date":"2011-08-24T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/medical-issues-at-mcrae-warrant-closing-cca-private-prison-aclu.html"},"modified":"2011-08-24T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:59:00","slug":"medical-issues-at-mcrae-warrant-closing-cca-private-prison-aclu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/medical-issues-at-mcrae-warrant-closing-cca-private-prison-aclu.html","title":{"rendered":"Medical issues at McRae warrant closing CCA private prison —ACLU"},"content":{"rendered":"Azadeh Shahshahani wrote for Huffpost 18 August 2011,\n\nLicense to Abuse? Time for Bureau of Prisons to Sever Ties With CCA<\/a>\n
\nLast week, the ACLU of Georgia submitted\n\ncomments<\/a>\nto the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to ask that the agency not renew its\ncontract with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for operation of\nthe McRae Correctional Facility.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nMcRae is located in Telfair County, Georgia. The prison is owned by CCA,\nwhich purchased it in 2000. McRae currently houses a population of low\nsecurity, adult male, primarily non-citizen prisoners. The contract\nbetween CCA and the BOP is set to expire in November 2012.\n<\/blockquote>\nWhy? Lack of medical treatment for prisoners, among other reasons.\nFor example:\n\n\n

\nAccording to another prisoner, after a birthday celebration held at\nthe facility, all the prisoners who consumed the meal suffered food\npoisoning. Because of the low medical capacity of the facility, most of\n
\n“Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison prisoners from the protections of the Constitution.”\n—\nU.S. Supreme Court<\/a>\n<\/blockquote>\nthe prisoners suffering from severe diarrhea, dehydration, and stomach\ncramps did not receive medical care for almost a week.\n<\/blockquote>\nAdd to that sloppy procedures in general:\n
\nMcRae also has a record of abusive disciplinary practices that violate\nBOP standards.\n

\nOne prisoner was placed in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) on February 5,\n2010, but did not receive the required notice until March 26, 2010. He\nwas segregated for a total of 97 days, but the disciplinary hearing at\nwhich he had a chance to explain his actions only took place on April 12,\ndays before his release into the general population. Documents prepared by\nMcRae employees themselves, such as the incident report, confirm the dates\nfor the various stages of the proceeding which deviate from the Program\nStatement requirements and reveal other inconsistencies in data entry that\nmay variably suggest carelessness or falsification of records. Another\nprisoner’s experience of placement in the SHU is similarly replete with\nMcRae employees’ failure to follow the applicable standards, including\n5 months of SHU placement without the required notices to the prisoner,\nperiodic reviews, or hearings.\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd it seems like this sloppiness does not occur randomly:\n

\nPerhaps most disturbing is the pattern of McRae employees’ possibly\nretaliatory conduct that begins to emerge from these accounts. The\nprisoners subjected to discipline were all active in exercising their\nright to pursue legal activities as provided for in federal regulations\nand BOP policy. They had either previously filed grievance reports against\nthe facility, provided legal assistance to other prisoners, or both. And\nthey were all placed at the SHU for prolonged periods of time without the\nobservance of procedural safeguards such as the periodic review process.\n<\/blockquote>\nCCA is the same company that owns\n\nStewart Detention Center in Lumpkin andWheeler County Correctional Facility in Alamo<\/a>; an inmate died in each of those in 2009.\n

\nCCA is the same company that wants to build a private prison in Lowndes County,\nGeorgia.\nWe don’t need that prison.\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.\n

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