Two former GEO guards end up at company's Val Verde lock-up

Two former guards at the GEO Group's troubled Val Verde Correctional Center have been indicted on separate charges, according to an article in the Del Rio News-Herald ("Jailers jailed," May 20th),

Two former jailers recently became guests of the facility where they once worked, after one of them was arrested for burglarizing the home of a friend and the other allegedly tried to smuggle a bottle of cheap wine and love letters to an inmate.

Cristela Ramirez, 20, no address available, was arrested following an indictment on a charge of burglary of a habitation, and Bertha Alicia Martinez, 25, Lot 10 Cerezo St., was arrested on a felony charge of prohibited substances and items in an adult or juvenile correctional or detention facility, investigators with the Val Verde County Sheriff’s Office said.

Read some the previous Texas Prison Bid'ness coverage of the Val Verde Correctional Center:

• GEO Val Verde Guard Sentenced in Prisoner Assault Case, November 25, 2008
• GEO Guard Charged with Smuggling Marijuana into Val Verde, March 28, 2008

• Val Verde Protest Video, March 10, 2008

• Problems Haunt Val Verde Correctional Center, November 20, 2007

• Idaho to Send Inmates to Scandal-Ridden GEO Private Jail, July 11, 2007

• What's Not Happening at the Val Verde Jail, August 20, 2007

• Mysterious Illness Leaves Two Dead at Val Verde Correctional Center, August 10, 2007