#1242 - Inside Willacy




Latino USA show

Summary: <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;">PODCAST DESCRIPTION: INSIDE WILLACY</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a;">Mental health coordinator Twana Cooks-Allen showed up to work at an immigration detention facility thinking she was going to treat troubled detainees. But she soon discovered the real threats were not the people locked up there. We take you inside the center and deep into what happened at Willacy, in this special program produced by Catherine Rentz in partnership with PBS’s FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Then, we take you back in time to a 1977 when Puerto Rican activist Mikey Melendez and eight others took hostage the Statue of Liberty.<p></p></span></p>