Source: www.motherjones.com - Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Wielding pipes as weapons, 2,000 inmates at Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas, broke out of their dormitories, started fires, and seized control of the federal prison on Friday. Correctional officers responded with tear gas, but it still took them two days to subdue the uprising. Now all the prison's inmates—mostly immigrants who were caught reentering the United States after being deported—are being relocated to other prisons. This is at least the second protest at Willacy in two years, and prison reform advocates say they're not surprised. They describe the facility as filthy, neglectful of its inmates' health, and in some cases outright abusive. "A lot of people get very upset and angry," one prisoner told investigators from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last year. "Sometimes they become so frustrated that they even speak of burning down the tents. But what's the point? They'd build them back up." What exactly is going in Raymondville? What kind of prison are we talking about? Willacy is part of a network of 13 "Criminal Alien Requirement" prisons: privately run facilities that contract with the government to detain noncitizens, most of whom have been convicted of immigration offenses. As of February 19, CAR prisons held 26,801 inmates—2,800 of them at Willacy. The prison's Kevlar tent dormitories—in which prisoners are said to be so tightly packed that when they lie in their bunks, their fe
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Wielding pipes as weapons, 2,000 inmates at Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas, broke out of their dormitories, started fires, and seized control of the federal prison on Friday. Correctional officers responded with tear gas, but it still took them two days to subdue the uprising. Now all the prison's inmates—mostly immigrants who were caught reentering the United States after being deported—are being relocated to other prisons. This is at least the second protest at Willacy in two years, and prison reform advocates say they're not surprised. They describe the facility as filthy, neglectful of its inmates' health, and in some cases outright abusive. "A lot of people get very upset and angry," one prisoner told investigators from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last year. "Sometimes they become so frustrated that they even speak of burning down the tents. But what's the point? They'd build them back up." What exactly is going in Raymondville? What kind of prison are we talking about? Willacy is part of a network of 13 "Criminal Alien Requirement" prisons: privately run facilities that contract with the government to detain noncitizens, most of whom have been convicted of immigration offenses. As of February 19, CAR prisons held 26,801 inmates—2,800 of them at Willacy. The prison's Kevlar tent dormitories—in which prisoners are said to be so tightly packed that when they lie in their bunks, their fe
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