Florida prison company charged with inmate's murder

A private prison company based in Florida has been charged in connection with the death of a Texas prisoner just days before his release.

The indictment alleges The GEO Group let other inmates fatally beat Gregorio de la Rosa Jr with padlocks stuffed into socks.

He died four days before his scheduled release from a facility in southern Texas.

A jury ordered the company to pay De la Rosa’s family $47.5m (€37.4m) in a 2006 civil judgment. He died in 2001.