Insurrection at Privately-Run Immigrant Internment Camp in Pecos, Texas
The Texas Observer has a feature story about December and January uprisings and takeovers by detainees of an privately run-immigrant detention facility in Pecos, Tx.
The evening of the uprising, the inmates sent a delegation of seven men—a Venezuelan, a Cuban, a Nigerian, and four Mexicans—to meet with the authorities.
They explained that the uprising had erupted from widespread dissatisfaction with almost every aspect of the prison: inedible food, a dearth of legal resources, the use of solitary confinement to punish people who complained about their medical treatment, overcrowding and, above all, poor health care.
