I work for a separate agency as a social worker providing for the mental health/counseling needs of the detainees of this facility since it started getting the immigrant population. So I've been inside there with full access for almost two years now...There's not a single locked door in that building, as a matter of fact they could walk right out the front door if they want. That silly mention of a laser system on the doors is less sophisicated than the laser system on the door of a 7 11. In the 7 11, at least it dings when you walk in, at that facility, it just makes a light change colors on the control board. The caption under the 3 year old picture back when that was still a prison and there was barbed wire, that's the loading dock where the garbage trucks come in. Of course that's not a good place to raise a child, you can't even see the building in that picture. Families stay there a month or a month and a half, most of us had at least that much of a crappy time period in our childhood.
And the comment form Cynthia Long at the bottom of the article? The part that's left out is that Cyntia Long lived for years in the same central american countries that these immigrants came here from, trying to improve the lives and opportunities of poor people and she has toured the facility more than once. I'd say that she's more than in a good position to make a judgement call about the conditions in that facility compared to the conditions in the countries that they came from."
Has anyone else been inside Hutto?
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