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To: TideGlider who wrote (36905)	1/15/1998 6:59:00 AM
From: Ditchdigger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 55532

TG,.. Elizabeth, NY,NJ??? from a thread--- "Yesterday, NJ-SPEAKOUT posted a report about an uprising by immigrant detainees at the privately run Esmor INS detention facility in Elizabeth. The facility, formerly run by Esmor Copr. of Mellville, NY, has been destroyed by the detainee uprising. In the last several months, numerous complaints have come out of the facility about abuses of immigrants detained there. Most of the detainees were not being held for commission of any crime but were incarcerated because their immigration papers were not in order. The following are some reported abuses that took place at the facility: * A female employee reports that male guards secretly watched female detainees while they showered; * The same employee reported beatings of detainees; * She stated "The main problem was with the head guards and their supervisors. We had no real training. There was a Chinese (detainee); he had kind of a loud mouth. I heard a supervisor say 'I should have my guys throw a blanket over you and beat you.'" * When an Esmor female detainee tried to bludgeon herself to death due to miserable conditions at the facility, a guard freaked out and screamed that he wanted a cigarette instead of calling for back up. * "It is a hellhole. I saw someone slapped into a wall by a guard, all right? I saw it with my own eyes. The verbal abuse, the way people were treated in front of me was terrible." Joyce Phipps, a Seton Hall U. law professor stated. She said that she had reported these problems to the INS in February. * Ms. Phipps reported that one time she saw guards laughing at a man doubled over due to pains from colitis. * "Clients told me of constant abusiveness of guards. Of beatings. I saw clients with bruises. I mean these were the kind of bruises you don't get from falling down." Ms. Phipps stated. * Clients told Ms. Phipps of bad food, of bugs everywhere, barring of religious practice. Ms. Phipps filed a letter to James Stovall and John Lima, responsible for running the Esmor facility in March and April. When she contacted the INS, they told her that Esmor is running the facility. * Julio Sanches, an attorney for some detainees told of complaints of lights left on constantly, day and night, and detainees forced to walk the perimieter of their dorms for exercise. * The Rev. Martin McGrail of Faith Fellowship Church in Edison, a volunteer, was called a troublemaker for trying to call attention to the situation. He spoke of physical abuse and an incident of sexual abuse by guards. He said that guards reported to the facility drunk and high on drugs. He saw a female guard physically abuse detainees and bounce detainees off of walls. These are just some of the reported details of abuses at the facility. (Star Ledger, 6/20/95) Esmor runs 10 other detention facilities around the US generating $24 million in revenue and $1 million in profit last year. Included are correctional and detention facilities. The New York Times reports that there have been problems at some of Esmor's other facilities (6/20/95). The prison industry is one of the only growth industries in NJ and throughout the country. The plan of government to lock up larger and larger percentages of the marginalized populations, especially minorities and the poor, means that billions of our tax dollars will continue to be pumped into the pockets of companies like Esmor, that have no concern for the human beings with whose care and imprisonment they are charged. The destruction of the Esmor facility by a detainee uprising is a taste of more of what is to come. It is fortunate that there were no serious injuries in this case. We need to begin to take a close look at just where the war on crime is heading and just what are the plans of the corporate rulers and their politician servants for those people, now numbering over 1 million, they plan to push into cages. My thought is that we need to begin to contemplate the demand of no new prison construction, and no more prison approval. As long as more hundreds of thousands can be pushed into prisons, the rulers of this nation will be able to avoid formation of real answers to the crises that are generative of greater numbers of prisoners." PS Esmor is history (along with some of my money)

To: TideGlider who wrote (36905)	1/15/1998 7:04:00 AM
From: Ditchdigger	Respond to of 55532

TG,one more... "Cops, Guards Picket Against Arrests of Alleged Immigrant Bashers Over 100 cops, prison guards and sheriff's officers picketed the Elizabeth courthouse to protest the arrest and prosecution of 6 guards at the Union County jail who have been charged with brutality against 2 dozen immigrants who were transported to that jail after the Esmor privatized INS detention center was destroyed by riot. The cops claimed that they were merely protesting the way the arrests were handled and not taking a position on guilt or innocence of those charged. However, they carried sifns claiming that the guards were being scapegoated for the failures at Esmor. (Star Ledger, 10/21/95)