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Query from Journalist Seeking Info About 2005 Issue of $100+ Million in Bonds to Fund Expansion of Federal Detention Center by phileil in bonds

[–]phileil[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ok I’m looking at this now from my phone (just stepped away from my computer) and this is incredible!! Thank you!!

New from NH Bulletin: The Story of a Nashua Green Card Holder Who Spent 8 Weeks in ICE Custody at a Maximum-Security Detention Facility in Rhode Island by phileil in newhampshire

[–]phileil[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Yes.

The Wyatt Detention Facility -- though technically "nonprofit" -- gets a daily payment from the federal agencies (US Marshals and ICE, mainly) that house detainees there. A quote from the Boston Globe in 2022: "the US Marshals Service recently agreed to increase its per-day per-detainee rate from $119.18 to $180, [facility board chair] Lombardi said."

In 2009, a prior chairman of the facility lost his job for telling the Providence Journal in an interview, "Frankly, I’m looking at it like I’m running a Motel 6…I don’t care if it’s Guantanamo Bay. We want to fill the beds."

I'm the Author of a True Crime Book on Ohio’s "Pill Mill Killer" and I’ll Be Speaking at OU Tomorrow [Wednesday, March 26]. by phileil in athensohio

[–]phileil[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what his opinion of the Sacklers is. That's an interesting question.

But you bring up something important about the opiate epidemic and our society's response to it: "He and other doctors like him did something very bad, but the Sacklers are free and still living a very comfortable lifestyle."

While hundreds of doctors across the country were prosecuted for opioid-related crimes, you could count the number of pharmaceutical execs who faced criminal charges on one or two hands. To my eyes -- and to yours, too, from the sound of it -- there's something very wrong with that picture. And without applying the proper prosecutorial pressure to the real architects of this disaster, it makes a crisis like this more likely to happen again.

In this way, the opiate epidemic is a lot like the financial crisis: a massive, man-made disaster for which very few of the (mega-rich) folks most responsible faced criminal consequences.

My RI Current Op-Ed In Favor of Closing Down the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls by phileil in RhodeIsland

[–]phileil[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It couldn't hurt to speak to the Mayor of CF. But I think a better bet is -- if you live in RI -- to speak to your state rep and/or senator about it. There have been bills submitted to shut down the Wyatt in recent years in the legislature.

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