And the count goes on… The 9th worst prison in America is in Mississippi, a sad story of GEO private prison for youth.  How bad can it be?  A federal judge in 2012 called it a “cesspool.”  Youth 13 are held in solitary rooms, blindfolded.  Rapes and beatings.  “Guards regularly had sex with their young charges and the facility’s pattern of “brutal” rapes among prisoners was the worst of “any facility anywhere in the nation” (court’s emphasis). Guards also were deemed excessively violent—beating, kicking, and punching “handcuffed and defenseless” youths and frequently subjecting them to chemical restraints such as pepper spray, even for insignificant infractions.”

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/america-10-worst-prisons-walnut-grove-youth-correctional-facility-mississippi?goback=%2Egde_65622_member_240351037