Immigrant Prisoners Stage Uprising in Texas
by Frontera NorteSur Staff
February 2, 2009
Details are still sketchy of an inmate uprising at a privately-operated federal detention facility in West Texas last Saturday. Reports in the U.S. and Mexican press suggest the revolt, involving hundreds prisoners at the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Tex., erupted after complaints of poor medical treatment went unheeded.
Initial accounts report the uprising spanned two days, with inmates setting fires and possibly even seizing guards’ radio communication equipment. An unidentified Reeves County official earlier told El Diario de El Paso the situation was “dangerous” inside the facility managed by the Geo Group. [...]
Read the full article:
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=a5bd28a0e4b705fda62342c3628c429c
For coverage of a December uprising at the same facility:
http://immigrationnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2008/12/inb-122808-texas-detainees-protest.html
Urgent Action: Call for Just Treatment and Accountability in Reeves Detention Facility; Support Immigrant Detainees' Rights
Urgent Action Request – Call & Fax to Support Prisoners Rights & Demands
from National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
For information on how to support the detainees:
http://nnirr.blogspot.com/2009/02/urgent-action-call-for-just-treatment.html
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