Dear Friend,

On Jan. 31, inmates at the Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC), a private corrections facility in Pecos, began to riot in a reported protest of poor medical care and other substandard conditions.

Prison riots are rare at any facility. But for RCDC, the Jan. 31 riot was the second in under two months and followed a mid-December incident in which inmates rioted in apparent protest of the death of an inmate who may have been denied medical care.

The ACLU National Prison Project and the ACLU of Texas have called on the federal government conduct a full and thorough review of RCDC to determine not only the immediate cause of the riots, but also the root cause.

We need your help.

Please contact the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice and request that it conduct a full investigation of RCDC.

The allegations against RCDC and The GEO Group, the private prison company that operates the facility, are troubling. If true, the allegations constitute a violation of the inmates' civil rights.

In liberty,
ACLU of Texas