Christian Camp

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Friday morning, Nueces County authorities arrested both the camp director and one camp employee in San Antonio. His name is Charles Eugene Flowers. According to a Web site for the Christian boot camp, or CBC, he spent 12 years in the Air Force before he started the boot camp up in 1995.

All the while, Flowers also served as the youth pastor of Faith Outreach International Church in San Antonio.

Flowers and Stephanie Bassitt were being booked into the Nueces County Jail, facing charges of aggravated assault.

"I don't want to be arrested, like the next man doesn't want to be arrested," Pastor Flowers said. "But, there's a purpose in everything. So we're just going to march that purpose on out."

Those were the words of Flowers, just minutes before Nueces County detectives took him into custody Friday morning in San Antonio.

Flowers is accused of causing injuries to a 15-year-old girl, who attended his Christian Boot Camp in Banquete last month.

According to his arrest affidavit, Flowers, along with Bassitt, were leading a group run at the camp, when the alleged victim fell behind.

Investigators said Flowers and Bassitt tied the victim up to the back of a van and dragged her down a dirt path - accusations Flowers said he would not address.

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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants Visits U.S

Corrections Corporation of America Announces 2007 First Quarter Financial Results

Think of the BILLIONS to be had from locking up "illegal" immigrants. Much more profitable than the "war on drugs"
We can keep on pushing policies that drive people out of their homes countries to work in this thankless, racist, right wing hell then lock 'em up at every opportunity whereupon tax payer dollars can be used to pay private prisons to house them until Blackwater can drive them home in trucks paid for by taxpayers and driven by drivers supplied by Halliburton all while guarded by Blackwater thugs.
And then there's that WALL around Texas.

U.N. Independent Expert Denied Access to Hutto Detention Center

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The Special Rapporteur is conducting a three-week fact finding mission at the request of the U.S. The Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council with the mandate to monitor, advise and publicly report on human rights situations in specific countries and on human rights violations worldwide. The tour of Hutto — a converted prison that houses about 400 immigrants, including children and asylum seekers — was considered a major part of the Special Rapporteur's mission. Earlier this year, the ACLU filed federal lawsuits on behalf of 12 children detained at the Hutto facility, charging that the children are subject to inhumane treatment.

According to the official terms for fact-finding missions, the Special Rapporteur must have “access to all prisons, detention centers and places of interrogation.” The terms also mandate that the Rapporteur be given confidential and unsupervised contact with witnesses and potential victims of human rights violations.
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