Criminal Case

Walnut Grove


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In  2010, Michael McIntosh's son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth  Correctional Facility in the small town of Walnut Grove, Mississippi.  One Sunday, McIntosh went to visit his son and was  turned away because, he was told, prison officials "did not know" where  his son was. He spent the next six weeks searching for his son, only to  find him in the hospital  with severe injuries. And McIntosh's son  wasn't the only one who had been hurt at the facility. Walnut Grove was  such a violent prison that one Federal Judge called it "a cesspool of  unconstitutional and inhuman acts." Today, we have the story of an  especially troubled youth prison, the for-profit corporations that  managed it, and the small town that relied on it.The U.S. Department of  Justice Investigation of the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional FacilityThe  Southern Poverty Law Center LawsuitThe U.S. Department of Justice Memo  Re: Reducing the Use of Private Prisons

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