July 13, 2009
Texas officials wary of prison company contract
A private prison company with a history of problems in Texas has caught the attention of state officials with a $7.5 million contract to run a new psychiatric hospital near Houston.
Lawmakers budgeted funding for the future Montgomery County facility starting in 2011. But they told The Dallas Morning News they didn't know until the past week that the county selected a GEO Group subsidiary to operate it.
The Boca Raton, Fla.-based company's problems with Texas facilities date to 2006 and include allegations of atrocious conditions, the hiring of a convicted sex offender as a guard and the suicides of at least two inmates…
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