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5 Mar 2018, 10:30 am
The conditions at EMCF have cost some prisoners their limbs, their eyesight, and even their lives.In 2013, the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, and prisoner rights attorney Elizabeth Alexander filed a class-action complaint on behalf of all the prisoners held at EMCF. [read post]
30 May 2013, 11:20 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Today, the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF), describing the for-profit prison as hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 8:15 am
At a facility where 96 percent of prisoners take medication, EMCF struggles to deliver necessary medications. [read post]
31 May 2013, 1:47 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Also, read one EMCF prisoner’s gut-wrenching account of the sort of violence that is rampant at the understaffed facility. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 1:38 pm by Suzanne Ito
GEO's chairman and CEO claimed that it was backing out of the Mississippi contract because EMCF was "financially underperforming;" GEO said it had expected the contract to generate about $21.7 million in annual revenue. [read post]