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. ...
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