‘Heavily Damaged,’ Private Prison Feels the Heat in West Texas
PECOS, Texas: Law enforcement officers and equipment on Tuesday moved in and out of a federal prison heavily damaged by inmate rioting over the weekend. The company that runs the Reeves County Detention Center says Saturday’s riot, the second in two months, left the facility unable to resume normal operations.
Perhaps the only thing harder to contain than a prison riot is the embarrassment that comes after a prison riot. But still. Boca Raton-based Geo Group has done a ham-handed job spinning the riot that broke out Saturday at a prison it owns in the West Texas town of Pecos. On Sunday it released a statement that the riot ended with a "positive outcome."
Riot heavily damages West Texas prison
February 4, 2009
The Associated Press
PECOS, Texas -- Law enforcement officers and equipment on Tuesday moved in and out of a federal prison heavily damaged by inmate rioting over the weekend.
The company that runs the Reeves County Detention Center says Saturday’s riot, the second in two months, left the facility unable to resume normal operations.