GEO Group Settles $47.5 Million Texas Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2010 published in Verdict1 September, 2010, page 49

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Civil Procedure, Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death). Location: Texas.

On January 7, 2010, GEO Group settled a lawsuit over the beating death of a prisoner in Willacy County, Texas that had already resulted in a jury verdict of $47.5 million – one of the largest prisoner wrongful death awards in the nation.

Gregorio de la Rosa, Jr., 33, was …

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