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02-03-2009, 02:18 AM #1
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€Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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02-03-2009, 10:27 AM #2
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?"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
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