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	"author_name": "Southeast Dignity Not Detention ",
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	"title": "Shut Down the Winn Correctional Center!",
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	"description": "In 2017, Louisiana saw a victory when several criminal justice reform bills aimed at decreasing jail populations were signed into law after relentless organizing from community organizations. However, as those jail populations went down, the Trump administration quickly started repurposing the facilities to detain immigrants instead, turning Louisiana into one of the leading states in the detention of immigrants. One of these jails is Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana. ICE began detaining immigrants at Winn in 2019, but the history of abuses at the facility go back years before. In 2016, Winn was a privately run medium-security prison and already notorious for abuse from an investigative journalism piece by a Mother Jones reporter who got hired as a guard there. The reporter worked undercover for four months and revealed shocking practices of guards regularly beating and pepper spraying inmates, widespread tolerance of sexual abuse, and dangerously inadequate mental health services and protocols. Shortly thereafter, the private prison company running Winn, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, now CoreCivic), decided to end its contract, but later that same year LaSalle Corrections took it over. Only a few years later, LaSalle announced it would detain immigrants there for ICE. Unsurprisingly, reports of horrific abuses under LaSalle’s management and the ICE contract began again almost immediately and continue consistently to this day. Given the slew of complaints, lawsuits, and other reports of human rights violations at Winn, the Biden Administration did belatedly announce in early 2022 that they would seriously reduce the population at the facility, but Winn remains open at full capacity today, and the reports of abuse continue daily. Biden has been president for four years, and nothing has changed in Louisiana. Winn Correctional Center, just like the many other facilities in the state, continues to see deplorable and inhumane conditions that have led to the death of several people detained. Add your name to support this call. *For a more comprehensive, but by no means exhaustive, summary of evidence supporting the ongoing demand for closure of Winn, see this “Anthology of Abuse: Violence and Neglect at the Winn Correctional Center,” endorsed by nearly 40 national and local advocacy organizations. It is available in Spanish as well here.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/shut-down-the-winn-correctional-center"
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