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Prisoner injured at CCA's Mineral Wells facility

Tue, 05/05/2009 - 08:52 — Bob

A prisoner was hospitalized after injuries sustained during an assault last week at the Corrections Corporation of America pre-parole transfer facility in Mineral Wells, according to the Mineral Wells Index ("Prisoner injured in disturbance at CCA facility," May 1),

A prisoner was reported transported Wednesday evening to Palo Pinto General Hospital from the Corrections Corporation of America pre-parole transfer facility with serious injuries, according to the Mineral Wells Fire Department and EMS.

According to a statement released late Thursday by CCA, “at approximately 4:45 p.m. … an inmate was found in the first-floor dayroom of housing unit 756 with injuries consistent with having been assaulted.”

According to statements by the dispatcher at the time, the caller stated that there was “blood everywhere.” Police also responded to the call but cleared within 15 minutes after speaking with a guard about the problem.

CCA's Mineral Wells facility has been home to numerous reports of disturbances, a rash of smuggling incidents, and was the subject of a three-part series here at Texas Prison Bid'ness by Nick Hudson (see part 1, part 2, and part 3).  It's also been the facility which has consistently generated heated comments from readers of this blog - both against the facility and in defense of it.  

Mineral Wells is currently debating whether to build a second private detention facility - this time an immigrant detention center proposed by Emerald Companies.  That proposal has been defeated once by local opponents, but Emerald is looking at other sites in the area.  Folks in Mineral Wells don't have far to look to see some of the potential downsides of private prisons.

Comments

Sun, 07/19/2009 - 05:00 — Anonymous (not verified)

I just wanted to know why

I just wanted to know why comments by people who were there are ignored or posted then taken down. Are you interested in the truth or just what conforms?
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 11:34 — Anonymous (not verified)

i was there !!!

this place is horribble!!! they do not have enough gaurds for this place and the gaurds there are crooked, they are making money on cigerette purchases and letting convicts smoke in front of them and with them they see a fight they turn there heads an let them fight it out they do not wnt to get involved this place was a nightmare to me its worse than tdc itsself  yes you may get to call home and have a little more priveleges such as wearing free world clothes , and a little more freedom some of the convicts there dont belong there there are child molesters  and  armed robbery people there it should be a minium sec. prison not for these kinda people i was there for dwi , im telling you yhis place needs to be looked in to there are gangs there and if you are not in one you really dont have a chance there are people that are gonna be there for 5 years or more it should be for the people that are ready to go home withen one year or so not 5 to 10 its a pre parole facility not prison where it dosent matter to those who got ten years or more and tro end my story the people who dont get commissary they are under nurished they do not feed them well i believe the health dept needsds  to look into to there food handeling services , and there medical department sucks i had a major toothache that i needed  an extraction and they would not help me at all thank god i was only there for 6 months an was paroled but its a nightmare !!!  also i seen gaurds with a cigerette drop at night get the cigs from over the fence an hand it to a prisoner threw th window an there is cell phones all in this place for this transactoin to take place think about itpeople this is a harvest ground of crimanal activites i seen a guy get totally beat down by 6 inmates and two gaurds didnt do nothing they are getting payed off some way or another i have seen it with my own eyes two gaurds for 600 peopl per building that  that is three storys high and the prisoners roam from room to room doing cocaine ,herion tatoing and every thing else                                                           

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