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GEO Group Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide: $100,000 Settlement

Loaded on March 15, 2010 published in Prison Legal News March, 2010, page 34

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, Totality of Conditions, Settlements, Suicides. Locations: Idaho, Texas.

On September 13, 2009, the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) reached a settlement with the parents of an Idaho state prisoner who was driven to suicide by squalid conditions at a GEO Group-run private prison in Texas, where he had been transferred. The IDOC agreed to pay the prisoner’s estate ...

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