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Texas GEO Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2007 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News December, 2007, page 23
Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Escapes, Suicides. Location: Texas.
by Matt Clarke

Seven months after arriving at the Dickens County Correctional Center (DCCC), a private prison in Spur, Texas operated by the GEO Group, Idaho state prisoner Scot Noble Payne, 43, was dead by his own hand. The reason he gave for committing suicide? Squalid conditions at the privately-run …

 

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