Fla. private prison company charged with murder of Texas inmate who died days before release($47.5m)

[Nambe]

Source: AP

A private prison company based in Florida has been indicted in the death of a Texas prisoner just days before his release.

The indictment released Thursday alleges The GEO Group let other inmates fatally beat Gregorio de la Rosa Jr. with padlocks stuffed into socks.

He died four days before his scheduled release from a facility in Raymondville on the southern tip of Texas.

A jury ordered the company to pay de la Rosa's family $47.5 million in a 2006 civil judgment. He died in 2001. ...

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-prison-company-murder,0,3572868.story

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Getting rich the hard way.

[PDJane]

1. Look at it this way.........

bankrupting the company, one prisoner at a time.

This is just repulsive. Either the whole situation is getting nastier, or I'm getting more sensitive.

[jhrobbins]

9. It could be both, Jane

[Gillian]

2. The US has the highest number of people in prison per capita in the world.

The system is awash with corruption. A prison administrator (Warden) told me she could make one phone call and fill 200 beds in 30 days if she wanted. The prison gets allocated funds per prisoner so kick-backs are ramped.

Over 80% of the increase in the federal prison population from 1985 to 1995 was due to drug convictions. Mostly marijuana.

[stillcool]

3. It's about time Wackenhut...

had to pay for one crime anyway. If the Justice system changes they might actually have to pay.

[cabluedem]

8. What a horrible way to die. These guards need to be jailed forever.

[geomon666]

4. Why the fuck do we have a private prison system?

Are we insane? Companies don't even treat their employees right unless they're forced to. Can you imagine how they treat prisoners? Well I guess you don't have to imagine it now.

[Phred42]

5. Privatized Jails need to die - fast

[bertman]

6. Corporatize. Privatize. Profitize.

Beating inmates with socks stuffed with padlocks. The new "time out".

[Omnibus]

7. If prisons are an "industry", you're doing freedom wrong. n/t

[ColoradoMagician]

10. I want names.

A corporation didn't let this man be beaten, what are the names of the employees on duty that day/night?

[Gregorian]

11. And how about Taser next?

How many have they murdered? They armed the killers, at the very least.


It's time to end this American madness.

[Festivito]

12. Wonder what crimes needed hiding that badly that they killed him.

This could be the tip of the iceberg.