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    Staff Trying to Restore Order at Immigrant Detention Center

    Staff Trying to Restore Order at Immigrant Detention Center

    Detainees protest quality of health care

    POSTED: 04:55 PM CST Feb 20, 2015 UPDATED: 05:37 PM CST Feb 20, 2015

    Disturbance Continues at Immigrant Detention Center

    RAYMONDVILLE -Law enforcement agencies from throughout the Rio Grande Valley converged at the perimeter of the Willacy County immigration detention center after reports of a disturbance.

    The incident started Friday morning at the MTC detention center in the outskirts of Raymondville.

    Raymondville High School, Myra Green Middle School and Pittman Elementary School were placed on soft lockdown. Students were not allowed outside of the main buildings, but parents were able to pick up their children if they want to.

    At approximately 1:20 p.m. smoke started billowing from between the tents at the center.

    Two correctional officers and one inmate suffered minor injuries.


    Prison officials said approximately 2,000 inmates were involved in the disturbance. A spokesman for the company that runs the prison initially said approximately 200 to 300 offenders were involved.


    Tensions began when the men refused to do their work detail.


    At one point, gunfire-like sounds could be heard at the center.

    Men rushed out of the massive tents and began tearing down poles.


    A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter and a mass casualty ambulance were sent to the scene.


    Authorities say the detainees are protesting the quality of medical cervices at the center.

    http://www.krgv.com/news/local-news/...enter/31388502
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    Operator of Immigrant Detention Facility Releases Statement

    No incidents overnight

    POSTED: 09:20 AM CST Feb 21, 2015



    New details in the ongoing confrontation between inmates and staff at the Willacy County Immigrant Detention Facility.

    Three to five inmates and two correctional officers are injured.

    A statement this morning from MTC, which runs the facility under a contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, says law enforcement officials made progress overnight in their dialog with inmates. They also say there were no incidents overnight.

    The confrontations began early yesterday morning, when some of the inmates began protesting about the quality of medical care they're receiving inside.

    Just after 1 p.m., hundreds of inmates broke free from their lockdown inside the facility, poured out into the recreation yard, and set fire to three of the housing units.

    Prison officials say 2,000 inmates were involved in the uprising, but are looking to confirm the exact number.

    Dozens of armed federal, state, and local law enforcement showed up to secure the perimeter. Three schools in nearby Raymondville were placed on a soft lockdown.

    http://www.krgv.com/news/local-news/...ement/31400448
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    Inmates Seize Control of Part of Texas Prison


    An official says 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.

    U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Ed Ross says in a statement that the Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville is now "uninhabitable due to damage caused by the inmate population."

    Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence on Saturday declined to discuss the main points of the negotiations but said there are no hostages involved and only minor injuries reported.


    Authorities say about 800 to 900 other inmates are not participating in the disturbance. The inmates being held at the facility are described as "low-level" offenders who are primarily immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...prison-n310276

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    2,000 inmates riot at South Texas prison


    Medical care reportedly the issue


    Photo By David Pike/Associated Press
    Law enforcement officials from a wide variety of agencies converge on the Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 in response to a prisoner uprising at the private immigration detention center. A statement from prison owner Management and Training Corp. said several inmates refused to participate in regular work duties early Friday. Inmates told center officials of their dissatisfaction with medical services. (AP Photo/Valley Morning Star, David Pike)

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    About 2,000 inmates housed at the Willacy County Correctional Center rioted Friday in protest of medical services, officials said.
    Two officers and three to five inmates reportedly received minor injuries in the violent demonstration that officers were working late into Friday evening. Immigrants convicted of federal crimes serve their prison sentences at the correctional center.
    Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence said local, state and federal agencies are patrolling the gates of the prison, which is mostly under control of the offenders, with a few sections retaken by authorities.
    Spence said the situation could last the whole weekend.
    “It’s calm right now, but with caution,” Spence said. “It could explode any minute.”
    The incident began at breakfast, when several inmates refused to leave their housing units for the meal, according to a news release from Management and Training Corp., which manages the facility.
    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 that went up in summer 2006, and is 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, I have no idea,” Spence told the Valley Morning Star.
    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.
    Issa Arnita, a spokesman for the facility, said some inmates did set “small fires” during the riots that damaged the facilities.
    No inmates had tried to breach the perimeter fences of the prison as of 6 p.m.
    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.
    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.
    Staff Writers Jacob Beltran, Jason Buch and Michelle Cassady contributed to this story.
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    As many as 2,800 inmates to be moved from Texas prison

    RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) -- As many as 2,800 federal prisoners will be moved to other institutions after inmates seized control of part of a prison in South Texas, causing damage that made the facility "uninhabitable," an official said Saturday.


    Ed Ross, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said the inmates who had taken control are "now compliant" but that negotiations were ongoing Saturday in an effort for staff to "regain complete control" of Willacy County Correctional Center.


    "The situation is not resolved, though we're moving toward a peaceful resolution," FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said Saturday evening.


    It wasn't immediately clear what progress had been made through the negotiations, but Sheriff Larry Spence said there were no hostages involved in the standoff and only minor injuries reported. Spence said the inmates "have pipes they can use as weapons."


    Management & Training Corp., the private contractor that operates the center for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said about 2,000 inmates became disruptive Friday because they're upset with medical services and refused to perform work duties.


    MTC spokesman Issa Arnita said in a statement that prisons officials have begun moving the inmates and that the process would continue into next week.


    Arnita said prison administrators met with inmates Friday to address their concerns but that the prisoners "breached" their housing units and reached the recreation yard. The Valley Morning Star reports fires were set inside three of the prison's 10 housing units.


    Authorities say about 800 to 900 other inmates are not participating in the disturbance. The inmates being held at the facility, which is in far South Texas more than 200 miles south of San Antonio, are described as "low-level" offenders who are primarily immigrants in the U.S. illegally.


    "Correctional officers used non-lethal force, tear gas, to attempt to control the unruly offenders," Arnita said in the statement.


    No inmate breached two perimeter security fences, and there's no danger to the public, he said.


    The large Kevlar tents that make up the facility were described in a 2014 report by the American Civil Liberties Union as not "only foul, cramped and depressing, but also overcrowded."


    The report said that inmates reported that their medical concerns were often ignored by staff and that corners were often cut when it came to health care.


    Brian McGiverin, a prisoners' rights attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said that he was not surprised inadequate medical care could ignite a riot. He said medical care is grossly underfunded in prisons, especially in ones run by private contractors.


    "It's pretty abysmal with regard to modern standards how people should be treated, pretty much anywhere you go," he said.



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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    Staff Trying to Restore Order at Immigrant Detention Center

    Detainees protest quality of health care


    POSTED: 04:55 PM CST Feb 20, 2015 UPDATED: 05:37 PM CST Feb 20, 2015

    Disturbance Continues at Immigrant Detention Center

    RAYMONDVILLE -Law enforcement agencies from throughout the Rio Grande Valley converged at the perimeter of the Willacy County immigration detention center after reports of a disturbance.

    The incident started Friday morning at the MTC detention center in the outskirts of Raymondville.

    Raymondville High School, Myra Green Middle School and Pittman Elementary School were placed on soft lockdown. Students were not allowed outside of the main buildings, but parents were able to pick up their children if they want to.

    At approximately 1:20 p.m. smoke started billowing from between the tents at the center.

    Two correctional officers and one inmate suffered minor injuries.


    Prison officials said approximately 2,000 inmates were involved in the disturbance. A spokesman for the company that runs the prison initially said approximately 200 to 300 offenders were involved.


    Tensions began when the men refused to do their work detail.


    At one point, gunfire-like sounds could be heard at the center.

    Men rushed out of the massive tents and began tearing down poles.


    A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter and a mass casualty ambulance were sent to the scene.


    Authorities say the detainees are protesting the quality of medical cervices at the center.

    http://www.krgv.com/news/local-news/...enter/31388502
    If they don't like the medical care and it really is substandard, why not deport them so they can benefit from the great care in their home country? It seems like a solid reason to deport- their needs can't be met here so they go home, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by meredit View Post
    If they don't like the medical care and it really is substandard, why not deport them so they can benefit from the great care in their home country? It seems like a solid reason to deport- their needs can't be met here so they go home, right?
    They can't be deported until they serve their federal prison sentence.
    It houses “deportable individuals” who have been convicted of federal crimes and are eligible to be deported once their prison terms are up, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Ed Ross told the Los Angeles Times on Friday.
    http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...221-story.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by meredit View Post
    If they don't like the medical care and it really is substandard, why not deport them so they can benefit from the great care in their home country? It seems like a solid reason to deport- their needs can't be met here so they go home, right?

    Excellent suggestion. Or ..... maybe they'd prefer the medical treatment they get in the desert or the Rio Grande.

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