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Action to End Inhumane Detention at GEO-run prison

Arnoldo Garcia | 23.03.2009 23:44

& Crisis At GEO Private Prison in Pecos, Texas

NNIRR Reeves Update & Urgent Action Alert -
March 20, 2009

GEO run Campsfield immigration prison in the UK.

Make Calls, Send Faxes Demanding
End Inhumane Detention and
Crisis At GEO Private Prison in Pecos, TX

GEO Group administrators, supervisors and employees continue inflicting severe abuses and violating the rights of immigrant detainees at the privately-run prison in Pecos, TX. Detainees at the GEO Group run-prison are being subjected to inhumane treatment, denying them medical care, providing inadequate food and placing detainees in harm’s way with the unsanitary conditions of detention. Geo Group maintains the prisoners in overcrowded conditions at the Reeves County Detention Complex facilities (RCDC).

Last week, NNIRR received a report of another inmate death at Reeves County facility. Although initially reported as a suicide, it is highly unlikely that an inmate who was three months short of completing a five-year sentence would take his own life, in light of recent reports from Reeves County inmates who testify to the brutal treatment and conditions at the facility by guards.

TAKE ACTION, CALL:
• Congressman Ciro Rodriguez 23rd district (TX):
Tel (202) 225-4511
Fax: (202) 225-2237
Email  ciro.rodriguez@mail.house.gov
Senior Staff: Cesar Blanco:  cesar.blanco@mail.house.gov

• BOP Director Harley Lappin
Tel (214) 224-3389
Email: scro/ execassistant@bop.gov

• RCDC Warden Richard Subasavage
Tel (432) 447-2926
Fax (432) 447-9224

TELL THEM:
• End the inhumane treatment and punishments against immigrant detainees and hold GEO Group accountable.

• Investigate the allegations of prisoner deaths and other abuses and violations of detainees’ rights

• Allow detainees to have access to their families, independent medical exams and legal counsel

• Allow the media and immigrant and human rights institutions access to the Reeves County Detention Facility Complex in Pecos, TX.

SAMPLE LETTER
To view an actual letter send by NNIRR to the Bureau of Prisons, go to:
 http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.nnirr.org%2Fresources%2Fdocs%2FNNIRRlettertoBOPonReevesFINAL32009.pdf

TO READ FULL ACTION ALERT & UPDATE:
 http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.nnirr.org%2Faction%2Findex.php%3Fop%3Dread%26id%3D187%26type%3D0

Arnoldo Garcia