The lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, alleges that the Arizona State Penitentiary at Kingman had numerous security breakdowns including a faulty perimeter alarm system that malfunctioned for two years and was inoperable at the time of the escape and untrained prison personnel who routinely ignored alarms.
"Through its egregious failure to meet its duty of care to the general public, defendant acted to serve its own interests while having reason to know, and consciously disregarded a substantial risk that its conduct might significantly injure the rights of others," the 30-page petition states.
The lawsuit was filed by the family of Gary and Linda Haas of Tecumseh, Okla., who were killed on Aug. 2 in New Mexico as they were traveling to Colorado for an annual camping trip with friends.
It seeks unspecified damages, including punitive damages, from the state of Arizona, the Arizona Department of Corrections, the Kingman prison's private operator, Utah-based Management and Training Corp., and its builder, Dominion Asset Services of Guthrie, Okla.
The family's attorney, Jacob Diesselhorst of Edmond, Okla., said investigations into the July 30 escape of the inmates revealed flagrant security deficiencies and errors by management and security staff.
"It's almost hard to believe how poorly managed and operated this place was. It's mind boggling," Diesselhorst said. "The state of Arizona, the public, was at risk at this whole time unknowingly."
He said false alarms at the prison were so commonplace that they were ignored by correctional officers.
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