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Booth Gunter is a writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization based in Montgomery, Alabama. You can read a longer version of this report on the SPLC's website. www.splcenter.org
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Prisoners, some as young as 13, are being brutalized in facilities owned by private companies that exist solely to turn a profit.