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November 9, 2017

Prisoner in Texas Immigration Detention Center Alleges Sexual Assaults
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In Texas, an asylum seeker at the private, all-women T. Don Hutto
detention center says she was sexually assaulted by a guard and fears
retaliation for speaking out. The woman alleges a female guard who
worked in the recreation area groped her on repeated occasions. In a
letter given to an advocate during visitation hours, the woman wrote
that the guard "took advantage of every moment she could to touch my
breasts or my legs," and "what she did with me, she did with other
residents." The group Grassroots Leadership reports the woman was
treated with suspicion when sheriff's deputies interviewed her this
week, as immigration authorities looked on. About 500 women are held at
Hutto, a jail run by Core Civic, formerly known as Corrections
Corporation of America.


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