February 1, 2009
Officer: Inmates riot again at West Texas prison
The second riot in less than two months at a privately run federal prison in West Texas involves an area that houses up to 2,000 inmates, a corrections officer said Saturday night.
Matt Guerra of the Reeves County Detention Center said the disturbance that started earlier Saturday was ongoing. He said prison officers were safe but that he wasn't sure whether inmates were injured…
…The GEO Group, based in Boca Raton, Fla., has run the lockup through contracts with Reeves County and the Federal Bureau of Prisons since 2003. The prison holds more than 2,400 inmates…
LINK - The Dallas Morning News
