Thread: TX: Pecos immigration prison riot ends

Pecos immigration prison riot ends
by Frontera NorteSur

The weekend uprising was the second time inmates have staged violent protests at the prison in a period of less than two months. Managed by the Florida-based Geo Group, the Pecos facility is among many immigrant detention centers in the United States currently run by private companies.

Posted on February 2, 2009

Details are still sketchy of an inmate uprising at a privately-operated federal detention facility in West Texas last Saturday. Reports in the U.S. and Mexican press suggest the revolt, involving hundreds prisoners at the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas, erupted after complaints of poor medical treatment went unheeded.

Initial accounts report the uprising spanned two days, with inmates setting fires and possibly even seizing guards’ radio communication equipment. An unidentified Reeves County official earlier told El Diario de El Paso the situation was “dangerousâ€

Hmmm............they'll revolt here over what they consider poor medical care, however, they refuse to revolt against their own government's corruption.

I wonder, were these folks receiving better medical care in Mexico?