Amarillo sits at the top of the Texas Panhandle, dry, battered by red sands. No one would go there on purpose. Yet of course there’s a prison there, and it now is making the news: highest reported incidents of sexual abuse by staff, and inmate-on-inmate. Appx 8% for both reported…. who knows what isn’t reported for fear of retaliation on the plains?
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2013/jun/23/amarillo-prison-rated-no-1-in-assault/