Stewart Detention Center - Visit 9_17_11
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Oakhurst Presbyterian and North Decatur Presbyterian Churches visited Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin GA on 9/17/11.
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- 1. Stewart Detention and US September 2011
- 2. Lumpkin GA: 1,300 people, 2 hours from Atlanta
- 3. Lumpkin GA: 1,300 people, 2 hours from Atlanta
- 4. Lumpkin GA: 1,300 people, 2 hours from Atlanta
- 5. Lumpkin GA: 1,300 people, 2 hours from Atlanta
- 6. Not much happening in Lumpkin nowadays
- 7. Nowhere to stay in Lumpkin. Nearest hotels is this great place in Richland.
- 8. Nowhere to stay in Lumpkin. Nearest hotels is this great place in Richland.
- 9. Nowhere to stay in Lumpkin. Nearest hotels is this great place in Richland.
- 10. The biggest thing going in Lumpkin, literally, is the Stewart Detention Center.
- 11. The biggest thing going in Lumpkin, literally, is the Stewart Detention Center.
- 14. El Refugio and Anton Flores coordinated our visit on September 17
- 15. El Refugio and Anton Flores coordinated our visit on September 17
- 16. El Refugio and Anton Flores coordinated our visit on September 17
- 17. Members from Oakhurst Presybyterian and North Decatur Presbyterian, outside El Refugio
- 21. What you see on the way into Stewart Detention.
- 22. What you see on the way into Stewart Detention.
- 23. What you see on the way into Stewart Detention.
- 24. Layers of fence and barb wire
- 26. Not the visitation room at Stewart, but they look very similar
- 27. • 4 children Jose • 11 years • Apartment cleaning business One detainee that we met. Key emotion was shame. Jose was ashamed to tell his kids where he was.
- 28. • 4 children Jose • 11 years • Apartment cleaning business One detainee that we met. Key emotion was shame. Jose was ashamed to tell his kids where he was.
- 29. • 4 children Jose • 11 years • Apartment cleaning business One detainee that we met. Key emotion was shame. Jose was ashamed to tell his kids where he was.
- 30. • 4 children Jose • 11 years • Apartment cleaning business One detainee that we met. Key emotion was shame. Jose was ashamed to tell his kids where he was.
- 31. Julio • 31 years old • 2 girls, 5 and 9 • Worked as a roofer 20 miles away • Pulled over for having a license plate light out Julio wanted to make a better life for he and his family.
- 32. Julio • 31 years old • 2 girls, 5 and 9 • Worked as a roofer 20 miles away • Pulled over for having a license plate light out Julio wanted to make a better life for he and his family.
- 33. Julio • 31 years old • 2 girls, 5 and 9 • Worked as a roofer 20 miles away • Pulled over for having a license plate light out Julio wanted to make a better life for he and his family.
- 34. Julio • 31 years old • 2 girls, 5 and 9 • Worked as a roofer 20 miles away • Pulled over for having a license plate light out Julio wanted to make a better life for he and his family.
- 35. Bernabe Guadalupe Hernandez • Been in the US since 4 • Speaks very little Spanish • Arrested during a night out with friends • 3.50 GPA
- 36. Pedro Guzman • In US since 8 yrs old • Arrested in front of family • 18 months in Stewart
- 37. The Stewart 8 - arrested during the Pedro Guzman march in 2010
- 38. Why?
- 39. CCA runs and maintains the Stewart Detention Center
- 40. "You just sell it you were selling cars or real estate or hamburgers." - Tom Beasley, founder of CCA
- 41. • Houses 80,000 inmates in 66 facilities • Revenue from Federal customers (like ICE) rose 9.4% in 2010 to $718 million or 40% of CCA's business Federal Immigration is a growth market for CCA. 2nd Quarter Results - 2011 and 2010 Annual Report
- 42. Stewart Detention, Lumpkin GA Eloy Detention, AZ Torrance County, Estancia NM Houston Processing, TX 2000 San Diego Correctional Laredo Processing 1500 1000 500 0 Stewart Detention is the largest facility in 2009 the CCA system and the largest immigration detention facility in the nation. http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/privateprisons
- 43. 31% Profit Margin in 2010 CCA is driven by profit margin.
- 44. Process
- 45. Process CCA supports stricter immigration policies
- 46. Process CCA supports stricter immigration policies CCA builds facility on spec in 2006
- 47. Process ICE enters into CCA supports contact with stricter Stewart County immigration to house policies detainees CCA builds facility on spec in 2006
- 48. Process ICE enters into CCA supports contact with stricter Stewart County immigration to house policies detainees Stewart CCA builds Detention facility on spec becomes largest in 2006 US detention facility
- 49. Flow of $ ICE pays Stewart County $60.50 • Source AJC
- 50. Flow of $ ICE pays Stewart County $60.50 • Source AJC
- 51. Flow of $ Stewart County pays CCA ICE pays Stewart $59.65 County $60.50 • Source AJC
- 52. Flow of $ Stewart County pays CCA ICE pays Stewart $59.65 County $60.50 • Source AJC
- 53. Flow of $ Stewart County pays CCA ICE pays Stewart $59.65 County $60.50 Stewart County keeps $.85 • Source AJC
- 54. Flow of $ $98,000 Stewart County pays per day ICE pays CCA for CCA Stewart $59.65 County $1.7 $60.50 million for Stewart Stewart County County keeps since $.85 2007 • Source AJC
- 55. Corporate Lobbying expenditures by CCA are skyrocketing http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/privateprisons
- 56. New Detainees • 287(g) • Secure communities New laws and programs are in place to deputize local law enforcement to bring more immigrants into the system
- 57. 287(g) • Outsourcing of immigration enforcement to local officials
- 58. Secure Communities • Rapidly expanding program • Due process is ignored.
- 59. CCA helps writes the laws that bring in more detainees.
- 60. Obama is complicit: 1 million deportations during his presidency
- 62. Fundamental Questions • Should we outsource our prisons to for-profit companies?
- 63. Fundamental Questions • Should we outsource our prisons to for-profit companies? • Are we outsourcing an important governmental responsibility that should be overseen by the people?
- 64. Fundamental Questions • Should we outsource our prisons to for-profit companies? • Are we outsourcing an important governmental responsibility that should be overseen by the people? • How do instill a comprehensive immigration policy?
- 65. Fundamental Questions • Should we outsource our prisons to for-profit companies? • Are we outsourcing an important governmental responsibility that should be overseen by the people? • How do instill a comprehensive immigration policy? • What can Oakhurst do?
Editor's Notes
- Our visit on September 17\n
- County seat of Stewart County, Population 1369\nNamed after Wilson Lumpkin, 2 term governor of GA. A leading advocate of state’s rights and Indian removal\n\nOut of the way\nA prototypical sleepy town\n\n\n
- County seat of Stewart County, Population 1369\nNamed after Wilson Lumpkin, 2 term governor of GA. A leading advocate of state’s rights and Indian removal\n\nOut of the way\nA prototypical sleepy town\n\n\n
- County seat of Stewart County, Population 1369\nNamed after Wilson Lumpkin, 2 term governor of GA. A leading advocate of state’s rights and Indian removal\n\nOut of the way\nA prototypical sleepy town\n\n\n
- Metaphor for Lumpkin. Past its prime.\n\nCity cemetery. Emblematic of a city with little industry.\n
- It's an isolated town.\n\nNearest hotel is in Richland, 9 miles away.\n\nalso one restaurant in Lumpkin\n\nThis is important to mention. It's isolation is key to its greatest point of notoriety.\n
- It's an isolated town.\n\nNearest hotel is in Richland, 9 miles away.\n\nalso one restaurant in Lumpkin\n\nThis is important to mention. It's isolation is key to its greatest point of notoriety.\n
- Huge complex outside of town.\n
- Miles from nowhere, out of the way\n\nAllegedly built with the help of illegal immigrants\n\nIntentionally isolated\n\nWhat is the size?\n\nIntended to temporarily detain immigrants\n\nBuilt for 1900 detainees. Some accounts say 2000 people are there at times. Fluctuates\n\n
- This is the setting for El Refugio and Anton Flores. Anne Hughes coordinated the visit. \n\nThis house is in Lumpkin, intended to be a refuge or a sanctuary for those who are visiting Stewart. \n\nLumpkin is a long way from everywhere, and family members are traveling long distances to visit. Often these folks are poor. They are also staying for two night. \n
- This is the setting for El Refugio and Anton Flores. Anne Hughes coordinated the visit. \n\nThis house is in Lumpkin, intended to be a refuge or a sanctuary for those who are visiting Stewart. \n\nLumpkin is a long way from everywhere, and family members are traveling long distances to visit. Often these folks are poor. They are also staying for two night. \n
- Michael Orta\nTerri Lynn\nAnton\nAnn sayer\nAnne Hughes\nGreta reed\nLaura nieto\nDavid Lewicki\n
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- Greta Reed and Anne Hughes\n
- We drove in groups \n\nLargest detention center for undocumented people in the US.\nIt is a for-profit facility that ICE contracts with Stewart County.\nYou see these signs on the way in.\n\n
- We drove in groups \n\nLargest detention center for undocumented people in the US.\nIt is a for-profit facility that ICE contracts with Stewart County.\nYou see these signs on the way in.\n\n
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- http://the270view.blogspot.com/2010/12/nine-vance-laughlins-breaking-labor.html\nThe discovery that Corrections Corporation of America was using undocumented workers only came about after ICE staff checked the identification of construction workers who had been entering the facilities secure perimeter for months and discovered that the CCA contracted companies construction employee's were in the United States as illegally as the detainees that CCA was being paid by ICE to detain inside the Stewart Detention Center. \n
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- This picture is very similar to visitation room\nSpeaking through phones\nDetainee is allowed one visit for one hour per week\nNo hotels nearby\nSome folks visit on Saturday and sunday\nWhen we visited, we were in groups of two. One Spanish speaker and non-Spanish speaker.\n
- Anne Hughes and Greta Reed visited “Jose” Saturday September 17th at the Stewart Detention Facility, where we went along with nine others from Decatur and two from Smyrna.\n\nJose and his wife have four children, ages 11, 12, 14 and 15. They have been in this country for eleven years, working in an apartment cleaning business. They bought a home five years ago and were faithfully paying off the mortgage, until his detention, when they were obliged to default and lost the home.\n\nIn August Jose was apprehended, as were several of the folks we visited, “driving while Latino.” The cops pulled him over for no other reason than his appearance. He was obeying all traffic laws, and had a clean record. He was sent to Stewart, though I’m not sure how many days it took before he got there. \n\nHe was overcome with emotion several times in our interview. He does not want his wife to come to visit because they are all undocumented and he does not want her to get found out. They are telling their children that he found work elsewhere, but the two of us wonder if the children may not in fact have figured out what really happened.\n\nHe is full of shame and humiliation to be in a jail and not to be able to support his family, and that may be another reason that he does not wish to be visited where he is.\n\nAs with most of the detainees, he has neither the time nor the money to hire a lawyer. His hearing is coming up later in October and he knows he will be deported, probably to Monterey, because that is where he and his extended family are from. Two of his extended family members have been killed in the violence that is rocking Mexico and he does not want his family to be exposed to it.\n\nHe is not sure what will happen after his deportation. It is highly unlikely he could re-enter the country legally for years, if ever. It is all very sad.\n\nWhat gets him through is prayer, and reading devotional literature. Detainees may receive such literature if it is sent from Amazon.com.\n\n
- Anne Hughes and Greta Reed visited “Jose” Saturday September 17th at the Stewart Detention Facility, where we went along with nine others from Decatur and two from Smyrna.\n\nJose and his wife have four children, ages 11, 12, 14 and 15. They have been in this country for eleven years, working in an apartment cleaning business. They bought a home five years ago and were faithfully paying off the mortgage, until his detention, when they were obliged to default and lost the home.\n\nIn August Jose was apprehended, as were several of the folks we visited, “driving while Latino.” The cops pulled him over for no other reason than his appearance. He was obeying all traffic laws, and had a clean record. He was sent to Stewart, though I’m not sure how many days it took before he got there. \n\nHe was overcome with emotion several times in our interview. He does not want his wife to come to visit because they are all undocumented and he does not want her to get found out. They are telling their children that he found work elsewhere, but the two of us wonder if the children may not in fact have figured out what really happened.\n\nHe is full of shame and humiliation to be in a jail and not to be able to support his family, and that may be another reason that he does not wish to be visited where he is.\n\nAs with most of the detainees, he has neither the time nor the money to hire a lawyer. His hearing is coming up later in October and he knows he will be deported, probably to Monterey, because that is where he and his extended family are from. Two of his extended family members have been killed in the violence that is rocking Mexico and he does not want his family to be exposed to it.\n\nHe is not sure what will happen after his deportation. It is highly unlikely he could re-enter the country legally for years, if ever. It is all very sad.\n\nWhat gets him through is prayer, and reading devotional literature. Detainees may receive such literature if it is sent from Amazon.com.\n\n
- Anne Hughes and Greta Reed visited “Jose” Saturday September 17th at the Stewart Detention Facility, where we went along with nine others from Decatur and two from Smyrna.\n\nJose and his wife have four children, ages 11, 12, 14 and 15. They have been in this country for eleven years, working in an apartment cleaning business. They bought a home five years ago and were faithfully paying off the mortgage, until his detention, when they were obliged to default and lost the home.\n\nIn August Jose was apprehended, as were several of the folks we visited, “driving while Latino.” The cops pulled him over for no other reason than his appearance. He was obeying all traffic laws, and had a clean record. He was sent to Stewart, though I’m not sure how many days it took before he got there. \n\nHe was overcome with emotion several times in our interview. He does not want his wife to come to visit because they are all undocumented and he does not want her to get found out. They are telling their children that he found work elsewhere, but the two of us wonder if the children may not in fact have figured out what really happened.\n\nHe is full of shame and humiliation to be in a jail and not to be able to support his family, and that may be another reason that he does not wish to be visited where he is.\n\nAs with most of the detainees, he has neither the time nor the money to hire a lawyer. His hearing is coming up later in October and he knows he will be deported, probably to Monterey, because that is where he and his extended family are from. Two of his extended family members have been killed in the violence that is rocking Mexico and he does not want his family to be exposed to it.\n\nHe is not sure what will happen after his deportation. It is highly unlikely he could re-enter the country legally for years, if ever. It is all very sad.\n\nWhat gets him through is prayer, and reading devotional literature. Detainees may receive such literature if it is sent from Amazon.com.\n\n
- Spoke of racism\n
- Spoke of racism\n
- Spoke of racism\n
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- All of his family is in the United States. Has lived in the US since he was 8 years old. \n\nArrested in front of his wife and 2 year old son\n\nDeportation notes sent to the wrong address. Because of mother being denied permanent residency.\n\nReally helpful, attracting interest to detention policies and Stewart Detention. 100s, including Anne hughes\n
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- These people are not criminals.\nWe are ripping families apart.\nWe are punishing hard working members of our society.\nPeople like Julio, Jose, Pedro. People who are trying to make a living and raise their family\n\n
- CCA is the most prominent private p\n
- History of finding new markets. From drug dealers. To immigrants.\n
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- 5th largest correctional system in the US - public or private\n CCA is just one company. Indicative of a rising trend in this country. \n The prison business is one of the fastest growing industries in America, now employing more people than auto manfucturing\n
- Continue to squeeze expenses\nInadequate medical care. Inappropriate food preparation. Denial of meals as punishment. \nStories of maintenance workers not replacing light bulbs because it exceeds their budgets\n
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- Taxpayers pay Stewart County\n50% of the county’s annual operating budget\n
- Taxpayers pay Stewart County\n50% of the county’s annual operating budget\n
- Taxpayers pay Stewart County\n50% of the county’s annual operating budget\n
- Taxpayers pay Stewart County\n50% of the county’s annual operating budget\n
- Taxpayers pay Stewart County\n50% of the county’s annual operating budget\n
- CCA has a vested interest in seeing more people in prison\ndirector of federal bureau of prisons left his position and joined CCA\n
- Think of it as new ways to increase market share\n
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- US citizens are being detained\n\nBig questions on due process\n\n23 counties in GA\n\nGets people into the system and often immediately\n
- Lobbyists make sure that more and more illegal immigrants are locked up\nAmerican Legislative Exchange Council\n
- Not just a GOP issue. Obama administration has not helped.\n1 million deportations in the Obama administration\nTarget of 400,000 per year\n21,000 minors in 2010. 57% of which were unaccompanied minors (from Harper’s\n\n
- Are we failing as a society when we outsource the rehabilitation of our criminals?\n
- Are we failing as a society when we outsource the rehabilitation of our criminals?\n
- Are we failing as a society when we outsource the rehabilitation of our criminals?\n
- Are we failing as a society when we outsource the rehabilitation of our criminals?\n
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