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N.M. ACLU sues private prison company GEO Group for ?cruel and unusual punishment?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

N.M. ACLU sues private prison company GEO Group for ?cruel and unusual punishment? By Gwyneth Doland 6/17/09 3:31 PM The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico is suing a privately-run prison in Clayton for imposing cruel and unusual punishment, charging that in December, 2008, prison guards kept seven nude or semi-nude prisoners locked in a cold shower room for hours after a prison lockdown ended. The suit, filed today in federal court, claims that prison guards at the Northeast New Mexico Detention Facility teased and taunted the prisoners and a female guard videotaped the naked men. After the two-hour lockdown ended, employees told the inmates that they couldn?t find the key to the shower room door, so the inmates were given the option of crawling through a filthy cinderblock hole in the shower room wall or waiting for guards to find the key...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).