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RETURN TO SENDER/ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Stand-off -- Raymondville, Texas

In the meantime....... in one of those highly-profitable, quickly-assembled, pop-up tent private prisons located in bumfuck USA, the incarcerated immigrants have taken control of the compound.

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About 2,000 inmates housed at the Willacy County Correctional Center rioted Friday in protest of medical services, officials said. Most of those in custody are charged either with illegally re-entering the country or with nonviolent drug crimes, the ACLU reported. Some were in the U.S. on visas or green cards before their arrests.

By 12:15 p.m., the facility was on lockdown as officers met with offenders to try to resolve the conflict. About 45 minutes later, many offenders broke out of the housing structures and went to the recreation yard.

Inmates set fire to three of the 10 prison tents, causing minor damage, officials said. The facility is made up of 10 Kevlar domes and was established in summer 2006; it's commonly referred to as a “tent city.”

“There’s been some shots fired. Guards on top of the tower were firing. What they were using as ammunition. About 2,000 inmates were involved. An additional 1,000 inmates, housed in a separate facility, weren’t involved. Tear gas was reportedly used to bring the situation under control.

The incident forced the soft lockdown of three schools and the cancellation of sports practices and after-school activities.

In June 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union released a study that found inmates of these little-known prisons suffer from a lack of medical care. The report focused on five Texas prisons with the capacity to hold more than 10,000 immigrants. There are 13 such facilities in the country.

Prisoners interviewed by the ACLU complained of delayed medical care, guards using solitary confinement to punish those who are ill or who complained about squalid and cramped living conditions, and interference by prison officials with inmates trying to correspond with or meet with lawyers, the report says.

Last night, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Ed Ross released a statement that the Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville is now "uninhabitable due to damage caused by the inmate population." As many as 2,800 inmates will be moved to other facilities one day after several hundred prisoners seized control of part of a federal prison in South Texas.

Refs:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...092832.php
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires...nce-texas/
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RETURN TO SENDER/ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - by Duchess - 07-02-2014, 03:57 PM
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