{"id":1661,"date":"2011-08-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/private-prison-operations-have-been-rife-with-abuse-wv-council-of-churches.html"},"modified":"2011-08-07T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T12:00:00","slug":"private-prison-operations-have-been-rife-with-abuse-wv-council-of-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/private-prison-operations-have-been-rife-with-abuse-wv-council-of-churches.html","title":{"rendered":"Private prison operations have been rife with abuse —WV Council of Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Sunday, another church group against private prisons;
\nthis time, a group of churches.<\/p>\n

\nDan Heyman wrote 12 January 2010 for Public News Service – WV,
\n
\nChurches: No Private Prison For Immigrants In WV<\/a>,<\/p>\n

\nCHARLESTON, WV – West Virginia’s largest church group has asked
\nU.S. Sen. Robert Byrd and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation
\nto oppose funding a private prison for undocumented immigrants in
\nPendleton County near the Virginia border.
\n
\n<\/a>
\nThe Council of Churches is
\none of several groups discussing immigration reform ahead of expected
\ncongressional action on the issue. The Council has asked federal
\nlawmakers’ help in the effort, arguing private prison operations have
\nbeen rife with abuse. GSI Professional Corrections is seeking county
\ncommission approval to build the detention center near Sugar Grove to
\nhouse 1,000 nonviolent immigrant detainees awaiting possible deportation.<\/p>\n

\nRev. Dennis Sparks, the Council’s executive director, complains private
\nprisons operate outside the mainstream legal\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

\nsystem. Young people have
\nbeen trapped in them unprotected, he says, simply for being members of
\nundocumented families, even if they were born in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n“There have been a lot of abuses of children in these facilities:
\nno way to communicate adequately, no way to get legal protection or
\nrepresentation. So, they’re stuck.”<\/p>\n

\nGSI Corrections has said the prison would create 300 jobs, but Sparks
\nsees private prisons as a bad idea in general. In other places, he adds,
\nthe jobs have not materialized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.
\nSpend that tax money on rehabilitation and incarceration instead.<\/p>\n

\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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