Walnut Grove

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, Michael 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 Michael McIntosh's son wasn't the only one who had
been hurt at the facility.  Jody Owens of the Southern Poverty
Law center launched an investigation and found that 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
corporation, Cornell Companies, that managed it, and the small town
that relied on it. The U.S. Department of Justice Investigation of
the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility The Southern Poverty
Law Center Lawsuit The U.S. Department of Justice Memo Re: Reducing
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