cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/44702987
“We’re horrified but not surprised to learn that numerous sexual assaults went uninvestigated at a CoreCivic facility,” said Susan Beaty, senior attorney with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice advocacy group.
“Local and state enforcement agencies have a responsibility to use their power to protect the rights of Californians in detention, and hold accountable both ICE and private prison companies that profit to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars to incarcerate immigrants in our state.”
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He [Lt. David Collins] said CoreCivic “did not request our involvement” for any cases last year.
“Because no criminal investigations were initiated by the Sheriff’s Office, no reports were forwarded to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office for consideration of charges,” he said.
Why a private company is investigating rapes at an ICE detention center instead of the sheriff
We all know why.
He [Lt. David Collins] said CoreCivic “did not request our involvement” for any cases last year.
“Because no criminal investigations were initiated by the Sheriff’s Office, no reports were forwarded to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office for consideration of charges,” he said.
Outsider Canadian here, but is this not your red flag - among many red flags - that the private prison facility is now a lawless zone and perhaps the Sheriff’s office and prison operators are now shockingly open to criminal and civil liability? Under what authority would a Sheriff’s office have to enter an understanding with a private company as far as who is responsible to investigate crimes?
In some jurisdictions, the police would act as basically an office holder when they decide when a piece of legislation was violated, and to lay charges against an individual. Police are agents or employees of the state when they are not exercising this special authority to charge people with offences. When the charge is laid, the prosecutors take over the file. But now you’re saying that the police no longer want to use that special function - the reason why they exist - and they hand it to a private company with their own interests beyond the Justice System?
This isn’t the Justice System any longer, this is collapse.
Cruelty is the point.
