Psychotherapist
Kenneth Koym – Approved
MFT Supervisor, State Bar MCLE & TEA School Board CE Trainer
9704 Monarch
Lane, Austin TX
78724-5840
http://amiu.edu, http://dialoguemakers.org, Tel:
(512).215-4798
Email:
koym@dialoguemakers.org
March 28, 2007
Hon.
Joe Lieberman,
Chair
Committee
on Homeland Security
T 202.224.2627 F 202.228.3792
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Re: To
Investigate wrongful use of
torture, rape or deportations
fostered in private
prisons/Detention
Centers for profit
Dear Mr.
Lieberman:
Having
just visited
seven
private prisons for profit, I urge urgent needs
exist
to
investigate
exigent
depressive human rights
violations, lack of appropriate medical care, effective legal
counsel, sanitary
living
conditions; wrongful
use of coercion and
repression, or fostering fear of rape and
minimal education for minors in languages
native to
detainees; especially
for minors,
parents, grandparents detained at International
Emergency
Shelter (I.E.S.) Los Fresnos TX [100 boys;
60 girls] T. Don Hutto Jail
Residential Center, Taylor TX [211 minors; 300 adults] Cameron
County and Brooks
County Jail &
Detention Centers; East
Hidalgo Detention
Center; Raymondville Willacy County Immigrant
Detention Center; San Diego TX
Corrections Center; and other centers noted herein.
Through
insensitivities;
deprivations; taunting,
torture and
other abuses in Haskell’s Rolling Plains Detention Center and other
private
prisons, unconscionable
acts occur. I and my fellow visitors demand
instant cross-the-board inquiries of
fat cow operations. Emerald Correctional Management Corp runs Rolling Plains Regional Jail &
Detention Center for
Homeland Security
and Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Governor Perry accepted a $10,000 CCA private
prison
contribution in 2006; is that why ECMC leased the Jail in his hometown?
North Lake Community
College honor
grads/refugees Suzi Hazahza
(see photo) Mirvat (who worked as a north Texas local
insurance agent)
after fleeing Jordan are jailed
there. Suzi is clinically depressed with
unattended medical needs;
they arose being taunted, harassed, paraded and violated by guards
between
November 06 and today. Why did ICE staffers do full-body cavity checks
on her?
Considering Suzi, a Jordanian refugee
intended to
marry Fiancée Reza (a US citizen), a Dallas Federal Court Writ failed to
free Suzi per 8 USC
Sec 1209 (an
1809 law of this Body) though she's a refugee from Jordan which won't
receive
her back. Media and vigil
leaders seeking relief for college honors refugees were
harassed by road closers to a duly pre-publication of a march on this facility,
protesting failures to follow federal law or give medical
attention. Said
failures include help not given by J T Chambers
MD
Emerald Company Corp medical director of Scott, Louisiana or a
competent Haskell Jail Registered
Nurse (RN) & Prison Rape
Manual reporting was not done.
As the Homeland
Security
Committee, some who praise jobs brought to towns in rural America you know
they detain
refugees and young persons (granted immigrant rights in 1808).
But as Federal
Judge Sparks
ruled 3-22-07, “afford them at least
equal rights, due
process, effective
counsel” etc. granted
even to hard core
felons as “when
arrested
or they enter a
detention center
they have
no proven criminal or
civil court
histories”. But
such
humans
are kept for
profit by private prison company personnel known to
slap, goad, coerce, holler at, and taunt them in cells,
prison garb, and
behind razor
wire walls.
My interviews with Native American children similarly detained
from 1942-1945, now over
68-78 years of
age show fears and
coercion affects instilled
at youth do not
subside after six
or seven decades. Considering the horrors instilled in Taylor and Los Fresnos, Texas and Leesport, Pa, the US
government’s role today
is a shame.
More shameful, decades
back I
watched my then Congressman Lamar Smith initiate heinous provisions in
INS
Reform Act – a product of his Sub Committee. He rolled
back
centuries of precedence, contrary to Franklin
D. Roosevelt reminder:
"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially,
are
descended from immigrants. . .” Eye sores like these
bring despair to hearts and minds of citizens aware of aliens and
refugees not
solely family, friends and coworkers. Prejudicial gaffs by
any
who promulgate police state activities afforded
by for-profit prison management companies that are allowed to keep
humans must
reexamine the costs that such insensitivity brings or that
or hate group perpetrations; and,
legislation is needed to overcome such pig faced audacity.
However, I am afraid like many who
use prejudice to get elected Federal
Legislators and others have sat by as
principled State & Federal laws, 19 Texas
Education &
Administration Codes and Neeley, et al were set
aside to get
detention facilities up and running. I’ve
witnessed immigrants be gaffed
too often amidst
campaigns. I
examined Rep Smith’s
Sub-Committee outputs as I wrote Children’s
rights &
deportations: A call for justice and
despaired how he used anger and prejudice
to make immigration illegal; and laying ground work for acts of law
beating up
on aliens wanting jobs to help family members and country
men survive,
bringing a
scourge on our Nation. I take responsibility for being quiet before and
ask
that the blemished image forced on us, be investigated so what was
done, is
rolled back considering the unconscionable premises found in ICE laws.
Far too
long hate groups and fascists have used prejudice to gain political
points for
being harsh. That must cease! Again I urge fat cow prisons in Texas and
all
across the USA must be closed and the multi-billion dollar building
plan for
more be stopped just like prejudice that caused lynching after lynching
between
1810 - 1965. And fat cow contributions recipients must return
them. Find
lists at http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/HZTX31044/ and //opensecrets.org/contrib..asp?State-TN&Year=2006.
Promises
made by the
Debate Coach for Cheney in the Cheney-Lieberman Vice-Presidential
election and
point man for Senator Frist, appointed as
a
Commissioner to the Prison Rape Elimination Law of
2003 after
he - Gustavus A. Puryear IV JD after becoming General
Counsel & Secretary of the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)
makes
him a probable source of gaining past, present and future contracts.
CCA has
about 30,000 bodies in its US private
prisons for profit and that CCA has private international
prisons in six foreign countries. Puryear
assured the
CCA Board of Directors including Mr. Don Hutto
a CCA founder
that he "would prevent law suits against CCA and if filed, which he
with
his many connections would insure no one prevailed.” Best that a
political
appointee neither make such promises nor flaunt his connections in such
a
regard as the Prison Rape
Elimination Act of 2003 - 42 USC Sec
15601 et seq the National Prison Rape
Elimination
Commission is obligated to study Federal, State, and local government
policies and
practices respect to prevention, detection and punishment of prison
sexual
assaults and not to assure that future CCA contracts are issued to or
held
forever by the world’s largest private prison operator.
While
kids are detained unequal treatment exists contrary to Supreme Court
ruling in Brown;
conditions are not equal. It took vigils and activists in Taylor Texas T Don Hutto Residential Center to
increase schooling
from one hour to seven hours but this does not speak to fascism used to
invent
detentions and deprivations. To
curb
the
latter I urge that
citizens be
met face to
face in town hall
meetings and in the Legislature. T Don Hutto’s School director
Jean Bellinger told me “We're doing
our best here,”
but what teachers cannot overcome is stench that’s blemished the US’s
image plus the
distaste that
mishandling the law making process brings. The
political process must undergo house
cleaning right
along with
implementations thereof; i.e., US Public
Law 94-142 demands bilingual and other general and
special student “inmates” needs must not be deprived. T.
Don Hutto teachers do not understand,
speak or use languages
nor address special 94-142 demands found in this Residential Center. Correctional
Corp of America gets
$2,810,000
monthly; but perpetration of a fascist Williamson County image
around the world runs the
costs far
higher.
Lutheran adoption services report: Immigrant Families in Detention www.womenscommission.org, New York
Times 2-7-07, http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/02/354006.shtml “Child
Prisoners in Texas”; the BBC and the Texas Civil Rights Review http://texascivilrightsreview.org speak to
this. Though CCA
released
pregnant Mrs. Ibraheim, mother of five and
7 months
along via a writ on grounds
she could
not receive proper Ob-Gyn care, the ACLU
and UT Law
School Immigration Clinic clinical professor Barbara Hines filed 10
Federal
Court petitions March 6, 2007 on behalf of kids detained there, which Fed
Judge Sparks
ruled on Ibid. Hines
says “these
students are depressed and considering the conditions they should
be.” I do not
agree with Congressman John Carter’s characterization that
“the facility is
providing a humane and safe alternative to the catch-and-release”
policy.
Considering I was married 42 years ago a few blocks from T Don Hutto Center, I can say
“Rep.
Carter’s District is depicted as a bed rock of fascism.
Addressing such, an Alabama
Federal Court
class action Bivens plea
against ICE and Homeland
Security who wrongly
rounded
up US citizens
rather than immigrants shows
disdain for ugly
irregularities committed. The fling was made by the
Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of
US citizens
wrongly
included in the round up by vicious government officers.
In February,
my Office asked
Texas Education
Commissioner Shirley Neeley EdD
to adhere to ethical principles and not to violate 19 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Part II, Federal
Public Laws or
Brown v.
Board of Education, 347 U.S.
483 (1954).
This demand includes High School Diploma and GED authority granted to
Haskell’s
Emerald Corrections Center coned by
Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security administrators. The
latter
did their coning under a non-reviewable
fourth branch
of government contract and perhaps with help by
esteemed US Senatorial Districts. Not
right. [See Flores v. Meese,
681
F Supp
665 (1988); 42 USC Sec
15601 prison
rape; Neeley v. West
Orange Cove ISD et & Alvarado ISD v. Neeley
et & Edgewood ISD v. Neeley
et al,
107 SW3rd 558 (Tex Sup Crt No. 04-1144,
11-02-05); Bivens vs. Six Unknown Named
Agents,
403 U.S. 388 (1971). As a psychotherapist and TEA approved school board
member
trainer, I see
this fascist activity as an unconscionable threat to US security
not vice
versa. Accordingly,
I move for a Congressional
investigation, i.e.,
one witnessed by myself and other competent mental health professionals
having
direct knowledge of torture methods implemented at Guatanamo Bay, Abu Graib and other “secret” prisons,
which followed rules
written by General Miller per DOD Secretary
Rumsfeld
directions. A commission appointed
by this
Honorable Committee
must assure
no torture methods is used on persons committed to any Texas,
Pennsylvania,
Louisiana or other private detention centers or Homeland Security
endorsed
schools with detainees present or being
evaluated by the Dept of Health Human Services; and, that
commission
should be empowered to prevent any inmates from being rushed to another
private
prison when Wardens surmise they will be reviewed by Congressional
accountability investigators.
This
general call is for
hate groups and misguided fascists to stop their unconstitutional
practices in
accord with Morissette v. U.S., 246, 263
(1952) defining torture; 18 US Code
2340-2340A prohibiting harsh and inhumane acts against children,
mothers,
fathers or Grand Parents; Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 US 356,
finding a
State law or city ordinance that is fair on its face but “applied
with a heavy
hand or evil eye” and discriminated against a class making it
unconstitutional;
English Common law; Codes of Ethics for Judges, Attorneys;
Psychologists;
Marriage & Family Therapists; Mental Health Counselors; Teachers;
Nurses;
Medical Doctors; and School Board members; Powell v.
Alabama, 287
US 435 (1932); Brown v.
Board of
Education,
347 U.S. 483 (1954) mandating equality in education; USA v.
Abraham Jacob Alkhaba aka:
Jake Baker, 1997 FED
App. 0036P (6th Cir.) File Name:
97a0036p.06 No. 95-1797, (depriving freedom from detainees under 18 USC
Sec.
875(c); minors shall not be seized from their from homes; prevented
from
wearing their own clothes; enjoined from playing with others at their
own will
and never be tortured, slapped or smirked at for having wanted to sit
by their
parents. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=6th/970036p.html.
Moreover,
I have comments on
two more private Texas prison
debacles:
On Feb 26, 2007
I learned from the Warden, apprehensions in South Texas -
Raymondville Tent
Prison for Detainees had increased so
rapidly it exceeded Homeland Security & ICE’s
capability to
meet
rudimentary necessities; but he expected in months with money from the
US
Congress, this could be overcome. I possess
pictures showing with me present on 3-25-07, this
Warden and his
Staff are obstinate to lawyers, medical doctors, mental health
counselors, and
business administrators and do not wish to improve their performance. I
disagree and submit such for profit private prisons should be shut down
in the
face of these realities.
Lastly, I
am personally acquainted with a person victimized
in a 2000
family violence in Ft Bend County and tell you about it because harmful
administrative acts committed by private prisons operated as per
government
contracts, led to improper turmoil. A State District Judge sent the
perpetrator
to a private prison at a San Diego, Texas Unit. The
Unit used
incompetent methods to rehab the perpetrator who committed other
victimizations. It also stopped family members or advocates for the
20-year old
from being able to attend mediation sessions sought between the victim
and
perpetrator. I watched how private prisons under the guise of being a
treatment
facility and the inadequate perform rendered, all because of secretly
invented
procedure not found in publicly run institutions. When mediation
settlement
hearings were requested, sessions were denied; and, today the
relatively minor
conflict amounts to a protracted family wreckage which the Victim
Violence
Assistance program of Ft Bend County won't address. As a result
of its ill
will, the Nixon Texas Corrections Center was shut
down but no
remedy occurred regarding the case I testify about.
There are
equal
difficulties in the latter private
prisons as compared to the gulag atmosphere found in
Taylor, Los
Fresnos and
Haskell. [See ACLU, Texas United for
Families (TUFF) and UT Law Clinic filings and results. The 7-month
pregnant
Palestinian was released from the T Don Hutto Residential Center in mid
February by
Court Order. A newborn could have been jeopardized. This violation of
human
rights in the gulag is unbecoming. TEA School &
Charter Board
Member Trainers can't knowingly violate the Texas Education
Administration Code
regardless of administratively derived Homeland Security orders. They
must
follow constitutionally approved methods and tried and true Cardinal
Principles
of Education first laid down by Thomas Jefferson.
Keep me
in the loop with regard to these Federal Inquiries on behalf of
citizens of Texas and 28
countries
represented at the Rolling Plains Regional Jail &
Detention Center and T Don Hutto Residential Center where
insufficient
teachers speak the home tongues of the students forced to endure. On
these
subjects, kindly invite me to visit and let’s dialogue. I have
written Mr.
Lloyd Doggett my Congressman but my Texas
birthrights force me to
demand Town Hall meetings, Congressional investigations and corrective
legislation regarding unconstitutional private prison contracts and
practices.
So, let us meet with consular officers and ambassadors of the countries
represented so the rights of so many are respected in accord with
international
treaties and the model UN Children's Rights Charter.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Koym, Marriage & Family Therapist 2646, NPI
17706645426
&
Forensic Investigator
Stare Decisi - Precedence
Morissette v. U.S., 246, 263
(1952) defining torture; Title 18 US
Code 2340-2340A prohibiting harsh and inhumane acts against children,
mothers,
fathers or Grand Parents; Flores v Meese; Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 US 356,
finding a
State law or city ordinance that is fair on its face but “applied
with a heavy
hand or evil eye” and discriminated against a class making it
unconstitutional;
English Common case law; Codes of Ethics for: Attorneys; Psychologists;
Marriage & Family Therapists; Mental Health Counselors; Teachers;
Nurses;
Medical Doctors; and School Board members; Powell v.
Alabama, 287
US 435 (1932); Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
mandating
equality in education; Cardinal principles of education first laid out
by
Thomas Jefferson; USA v.
Abraham Jacob Alkhaba aka:
Jake Baker, 1997 FED
App. 0036P
(6th Cir.) File Name: 97a0036p.06 No. 95-1797, (depriving freedom from
detainees under Title 18 USC Sec. 875(c); minors shall not be taken
from their
from home or be prevented from wearing their own clothes; prohibited
from being
able to join with others at their own will or to play as children nor
tortured;
See http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=6th/970036p.html
Kenneth
Koym
Resume
Texas
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist 2646 - a Psychotherapist
Supervisor
with forensic investigatory expertise in trauma and violence mediation;
Trauma
relief therapist, and Leads Perseverance - Family Strengthening Skills
kick
start groups.
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All age,
including youth
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