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TX: Prisons for profit Deaths, lawsuits don?t stop expansion of GEO immigration prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisons for profit Deaths, lawsuits don?t stop expansion of GEO immigration prison By Michael Barajas San Antonio Current February 21, 2011 On May 27, 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents caught Jesus Manuel Galindo as he swam across the Rio Grande to visit family in Anthony, New Mexico. Handed a 30-month sentence for illegal reentry at the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Galindo, a resident of Juarez with a history of epilepsy, pleaded with prison staff throughout his stay to adjust his medication as his seizures worsened. In November 2008, the day after a grand mal seizure sent him to the hospital, prison staff ordered Galindo into an isolation cell as punishment, citing that he was having ?compliance? issues with his medication...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).