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| Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide for Pecos Country of West Texas Archives 1995 RCDC 'great' six months after crisis By MARI MALDONADO Staff Writer Pecos, Sept. 29, 1995--Reeves County Detention Center Warden Joe Trujillo holds no grudges over his relief of duty from the facility's highest position by Reeves County Sheriff Andy Gomez six months ago today, as he is too busy Implementing programs and filling positions Trujillo was reinstated and given full control over the center on March 31, two days after his dismissal, as the U.S. Bureau of Prisons began removing inmates from the facility, claiming Trujillo's dismissal had violated an agreement between Reeves County and the BOP. The inmate count at one point dropped below 400 just after Trujillo's return, but since then has grown by more than 250, thanks in part to the completion of the RCDC's new wing in July. The wing and segregation unit boosted the center's capacity by over 150 inmates. Trujillo said this morning that the facility's population is currently at 649, which is just two below ItS capacity. "With the segregation unit, the capacity is 692," he said. "Things are going great, said Trujillo, who added, "all programs are working well." He stated that he is currently seeking to fill two Correctional Officer's positions and is operating with a staff count of 152, "but it can go as high as 154." Reeves County commissioners have granted Trujillo the right to staff up to 159 persons at the county facility, "but the position I'm not filling right now are department head positions, and we're still looking," he said. As far as March 29's incident goes, Trujillo said, "let the horse die." Hubbs flew with Florida victim of crash By PEGGY McCRACKEN Staff Writer Pecos, Sept. 29, 1995--Bill Hubbs was shocked this morning to learn that "a good acquaintance" died in the crash of a vintage aircraft in Odessa Thursday. Vernon E. Thorp, 77, of Ocala, Fla was one of five men aboard a B-26 Marauder that developed trouble and went down during a practice flight for this weekend's CAF airshow in Midland. Hubbs, the former mayor of Pecos, is a member of the CAF, and he flew his P-51 Mustang in a "Missing Man" flight last Friday. He said that he has just resumed from the air races in Reno and recalled making several such trips with Thorp back in the mid-1970's. "He raced my airplane one year and won third in the Silver Race with my P-51," Hubbs said. The Silver Race pits second-fastest airplanes in qualifying races against one another. Thorp was a former corporate pilot for Levitz Furniture and was a long-time member of the CAF, Hubbs said. "He was a very qualified pilot. He had every aviation license there was to have, including a hot air balloon license," he said. CAF members affectionately called Thorp "the hard-headed Dutchman," Hubbs said. Search Entire Site: Pecos Enterprise Mac McKinnon, Publisher Division of Buckner News Alliance, Inc. 324 S. Cedar St., Pecos, TX 79772 Phone 915-445-5475, FAX 915-445-4321 e-mail news@pecos.net Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Copyright 1998 by Pecos Enterprise