the prison industrial complex!
we are all next!
http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=836
http://latinalista.blogspot.com/2006/12/privatized-immigrant-detention.html
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/01/03/some-dare-call-them-concentration-camps-pt-1/
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/factsheets/huttodetentionfac.htm
http://www.correctionscorp.com/facilitylist.cfm
Habeas Writ Details Allegations of Sexual Harassment, Medical Neglect, Overcrowding, and Isolation Techniques at Haskell
By Greg Moses
IndyMedia Austin , Houston / CounterPunch / DissidentVoice
There are different kinds of angry. Jay Johnson-Castro has tears in his eyes when he thinks about Suzi Hazahza at the immigration prison of Haskell, Texas.
But he's not going to cry without doing something, so next week, Johnson-Castro will walk sixty miles from Abilene to Haskell and hold a vigil for the release of Suzi Hazahza and "anyone else" being mistreated for their desire to be American.
"I'm almost in tears trying to tell you how angry I feel," says Johnson-Castro via cell phone as he drives home to Del Rio, Texas on Tuesday evening following three weeks of border protests.
He's talking now about 20-year-old Suzi Hazahza and how she was subjected to body searches so humiliating that she has refused all visitors since early December. In a federal habeas corpus brief that will be filed Wednesday in Dallas, lawyers allege that both Suzi and her 23-year-old sister Mirvat have been subjected to repeated humiliations at the hands of prison guards. And according to Suzi's fiance, the searches got even worse after his fifth visit when Suzi called begging not to be visited again.
"I can''t believe a fellow American would do that to anybody," says Johnson-Castro. "But I'm afraid that's the policy not the exception."
(see the whole article in the links above!!!)
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