Mike Coffman: “Corruption is so pervasive. In your view, are we making any gains on this problem?”

The fact is, GEO is not cooperative, and so we have an incident here. There could be other incidents down the road.

It has been an honor these first 2 years to represent the veterans--all the veterans in the district.

It’s in our interest to protect the public health of our community to be able to merely make a statement that requests or demands that (The GEO Group) comply on behalf of our residents.

I think the notion that we're still at the point where neither DoD or VA has taken the lead--and I think that one of them has to have ownership for it.