Melvin Bulauan’s son, Anjru Jaezon de Leon, said his father called him July 13 in distress.
“I tried to calm him down,” said de Leon. “He said, ‘Anjru, I’m anxious. I’m scared. I would rather go back to jail than stay here.’”
The “here” his father was referring to, according to de Leon, was 111 Taylor St., a halfway house in the Tenderloin run by GEO Group, a Florida-based company that privately operates 50 correctional facilities nationwide — including a handful of Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing centers. The facility at 111 Taylor St. has long faced allegations of substandard living conditions, including poor medical care. GEO Group has operated the site since 1989…