In a three-hour hearing to investigate allegations of neglect, abuse, and squalid living conditions at a San Francisco halfway house, GEO Group, the for-profit prison operator of the site, largely denied and skirted the allegations.
The Board of Supervisors hearing was a response to those allegations and the death of 44-year-old Melvin Bulauan, who died outside the facility at 111 Taylor St. in the middle of what his family called a mental health crisis, as first reported by Mission Local in July. The evening before his death, Bulauan had called his children, who drove to San Francisco to help him and said they tried calling the GEO Group facility repeatedly.
Staff hung up on them, they said, and even told them their father wasn’t a resident there…