“Detention is NOT prison” and “try not to take things personally,” are just two of the pointers the for-profit prison company GEO Group gives to newly locked-up migrant detainees.
In the latest disturbing account to come out of the company’s troubled Adelanto facility, surveillance video shows detainees (who were initiating a hunger strike to protest conditions in the facility) sitting calmly at a table and then getting pepper sprayed and roughed up.
We sure have come a long, long way from Emma Lazarus’ United States.
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