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Residents urge Clearfield County to end GEO Group contract over alleged detainee mistreatment; commissioners say oversight limited
Summary
At an April 28 Clearfield County commissioners meeting, multiple residents and a recently released detainee alleged medical neglect, poor food, solitary confinement and suicides at the Moshannon Valley processing center and urged commissioners not to renew the county's contract with GEO Group; commissioners disputed some claims, emphasized federal oversight and said renewal is set for September.
Multiple residents and a man who said he was recently detained at the Moshannon Valley processing center told Clearfield County commissioners on April 28 that conditions at the GEO Group-operated facility are inhumane and that the county should not renew its contract.
At public comment, Bobby Ericson arranged a phone call with a man who identified himself only by the initials JN and said he was detained 45 days. JN described delayed medical attention (he said a migraine request took three days), restricted access to tablets ("78 of us in that dormitory and 15 tablets available"), and meals he described as cold and inconsistent. "They treated me less than human," he said on the call.
Other commenters recounted family separations, alleged denial of medications, placement in solitary after hunger…
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