Two civil rights groups have sued the state of Mississippi for alleged human rights abuses at one of the state’s for-profit prisons.
A class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes how a “perpetual state of crisis at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility puts inmates at a “grave risk of death and loss of limbs.” Continue reading “Mississippi sued over for-profit prisons that risk imates’ ‘death and loss of limbs’”