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Galack was arrested in 2012 on an out-of-state warrant for failing to pay child support. вЂњThis is someoneвЂ™s brother, father, and itвЂ™s like nobody even cared,вЂќ said GalackвЂ™s ex-wife, Kristin Galack.ДЄ 2001 photo of Steven Galack with two of his three children. The cause of death was later found to be undetermined. A homicide investigation lasted less than a day, and the van continued on its journey. The guards said later in depositions that they had first noticed GalackвЂ™s slumped, bloodied body more than 70 miles later, in Tennessee. The others began to stomp on Galack, two prisoners said.

вЂњOnly body shots,вЂќ one prisoner said she heard the guard say. On the third day, the van stopped in Georgia, and one of two guards onboard gave a directive to the prisoners. Galack soon grew delusional, keeping everyone awake with a barrage of chatter and odd behavior. The air conditioning faltered amid 90-degree heat. They sat tightly packed on seats inside a cage, with no way to lie down to sleep. Galack was loaded into a van run by Prisoner Transportation Services of America, the nationвЂ™s largest for-profit extradition company.Д¬rammed around him were 10 other people, both men and women, all handcuffed and shackled at the waist and ankles. Like dozens of states and countless localities, Butler County outsources the long-distance transport of suspects and fugitives.

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Read more about how to investigate private prisoner transport services in your state. This story was produced in collaboration with The New York Times.