Locked Inside A Nightmare

[number6]

> meanwhile speaking of abuse and prisons <

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/05/09/60II/main193636.shtml

(CBS) When 14-year-old Sara Lowe was arrested, her parents thought it was a blessing. They thought she was going to a new kind of juvenile detention facility - a private prison offering counseling that could turn her life around.

Many parents cling to the hope of rehabilitation. For Sara and others that hope was offered by the Wackenhut Corrections Corp. And Wackenhut is the leader of a trend in America putting prisons in the hands of private companies. Wackenhut says it can run the prisons for less money than a state can - and provide better rehabilitation.

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[number6]

1. more

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Sara eventually told her sister, Jenny, that one of the guards raped her almost every night. "He would take her in the next cell and molest her every night," Jenny says. "She was in fear for (her) life, because he would tell her, 'I will, I'm going to kill your sister and your mom if you tell anybody.'"

In time, Sara's mother found out. The Lowes filed suit against Wackenhut, alleging widespread, systematic sexual assault of the girls in the Texas detention center. The suit would launch an investigation, pitting the story of a deeply troubled teen-age girl against a $2 billion company.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/05/09/60II/main193636.shtml

[whistle]

2. Does Wackenhut Corrections supply any contractors...

...to the military?

[number6]

4. yes

I think they have contract for security at groom lake

[PfcHammer]

3. Sounds about right. Texas is the wild west. Gatesville prison

supposedly subjected female inmates to extreme heat by
confining them out in the sun and then forced them to
exchange oral sex for drinking water. The US prison system
appears to be the ideal training environment for the kind
of wrongdoers seen in Iraq.