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For-Profit Prison Accused of Subjecting Juveniles to ‘Disgraceful’ Conditions. A for-profit British private security firm whose human rights abuses have been documented around the world stands accused by a grand jury of operating a horrific juvenile detention center in Florida where conditions are so poor, and hygiene so bad, that the prison “should cease to exist.”
Whistleblower Exposes Torture and Child Abuse at For-Profit Prison. A social worker formerly employed at a for-profit family immigrant detention center in Texas blew the whistle this week on the prison’s inhumane conditions—from solitary confinement to medical neglect—that she said amount to child abuse and torture.