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Mississippi Closes Troubled Former Youth Prison
Loaded on Aug. 30, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2017, page 58
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Management and Training Corporation,
Guard Misconduct,
Cost of Prison Systems,
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
Mississippi.
Citing budgetary cuts, the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) finally closed the troubled, privately-operated Walnut Grove Correctional Facility (WGCF) on September 15, 2016.
As previously reported in PLN, Walnut Grove had been under a federal consent decree since 2012 over allegations of guards smuggling drugs and having sex with ...
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