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Victim beaten to death with socks filled with padlocks

Source: By FERNANDO DEL VALLE, Valley Morning Star (TX), Sept. 1, 2006

RAYMONDVILLE - Testimony continued Thursday in the civil trial of a private prison company accused of negligence in the beating death of a Laredo prisoner. The family of Gregorio De La Rosa alleges Wackenhut Corrections Corp. failed to supervise two prisoners who used socks filled with padlocks to beat him on April 26, 2001.