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Prison Pays: Geo Corp Profits from Half-Way House Murder and Mayhem in Texas
Loaded on May 15, 2011
by Craig Malisow
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2011, page 1
Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private-prison corporation GEO Group keeps getting contracts in Texas
Filed under:
Classification,
Work Release,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Cornell Corrections,
Contractor Misconduct,
Government Misconduct,
Escapes,
Totality of Conditions,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Murder by Parolees,
Murder by Escapees,
Juvenile Prisons.
Locations:
Arkansas,
Colorado,
Texas.
by Craig Malisow
Anthony Ferrell left the Ben A. Reid halfway house in northeast Houston on October 25, 2010, to go to work. He never came back.
Just over two weeks later, a …
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