Texas: Wrongful death suit filed against GEO and PNA Attorneys close to filing suit in Pecos prison inmate's death by Bob Campbell Midland Reporter-Telegram Published: Sunday, January 3, 2010 1:11 AM CST El Paso attorneys are almost finished preparing a lawsuit against the company that operates Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos and a Lubbock physicians' group in the case of an epileptic 32-year-old inmate who died on Dec. 12, 2008, one of the attorneys said. Representing the wife, three children and parents of Jesus Manuel Galindo, Miguel "Mike" Torres said he will file suit against the Geo Group of Boca Raton, Fla., which operates the 2,400 inmate lockup for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, and Physicians Network Association of Lubbock, which had been providing the inmates medical care when Galindo was found dead in an isolation cell in the prison's Security Housing Unit. Efforts were unsuccessful last week to reach Wayne Calabrese, Geo's president-CEO in Boca Raton, Fla., and Dr. Vernon "Trey" Farthing, PNA board chairman. Torres said he and co-counsel Leon Schydlower and defense lawyers have sought documents and conducted extensive witnesses' depositions since the 7 a.m. discovery of Galindo's body started a prison riot in which the recreation center was burned, three inmates were hospitalized and 25 were charged with assault and other crimes. ... _www.mywesttexas. com/articles/ 2010/01/03/ news/top_ stories/prison_ lawsuit.txt _ (http://www.mywestte xas.com/articles /2010/01/ 03/news/top_ stories/prison_ lawsuit.txt)