August 10, 2011
Louisiana private prison company problems detailed
Arnol Suazo and Olvin Aguilar carefully destroyed all their mail to avoid leaving any names or addresses in their cells that authorities might use to track them. Then, just before 4 a.m. on July 5, while taking out the trash during breakfast kitchen detail at the Jackson Parish Correctional Center, they dashed for the fence, scrambled over razor wire and disappeared into the Louisiana woods.
The two convicted robbers were the 15th and 16th escapees over the past seven years from private prisons run by LaSalle Southwest Corrections, of Ruston, La. LaSalle, which operates 12 prisons in Texas and Louisiana, is the smallest of the four companies bidding for a contract with the Arizona Department of Corrections...
LINK - TucsonCitizen.com
