Damon Fitzgerald
Damon Fitzgerald, 39, was serving 310 to 470 years on a string of charges out of Douglas County including two first-degree sexual assaults within a week, a robbery, burglary, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, assault by a confined person and third-degree assault on an officer.
According to court records, Fitzgerald was responsible for back-to-back rapes in Omaha in two weeks in 2005.
In one, he entered a home, demanded money from a baby sitter, then threatened the woman with a knife and raped her.
Before he left, he ransacked the house, taking clothes and jewelry.
After Fitzgerald was arrested, police tied him to the rape a week earlier of a woman walking near 73rd and Blondo streets shortly before 6 a.m. The woman later saw Fitzgerald's mugshot and identified him as the rapist.
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Earlier this year, Fitzgerald filed a petition for the court to review a disciplinary action taken against him after he was found to have punched another inmate in a prison yard. He lost 180 days of good time for it.
It was far from the only time Fitzgerald petitioned the court to review lost good time, hinting at issues he had within prison walls.
In 2014, he was barred from attending misconduct report hearings because of his behavior, according to court records.
Michael Galindo
Michael Galindo, 31, was serving 12 to 21 years, most of it for a 2014 robbery at a Git N Split store in Scottsbluff, but also on charges of forgery, attempted possession of a controlled substance, driving under suspension and sale of alcohol to a minor, all in Buffalo County.
According to a search warrant, the robber pulled a gun on the clerk and got away with $725.
In court records, he fought his robbery conviction, saying in one: "I AM INNOCENT." Family swore in affidavits that he didn't do it.
He blamed his former Scottsbluff attorney in a civil case and his new attorney was seeking DNA testing on evidence.
Galindo, who would've been eligible for parole in 2019, said in court filings he was a licensed barber.
One of his sisters said he called their mother Thursday to say fire had broken out in his housing unit and a riot was taking place.
In a Facebook message to the Journal Star, the sister said she contacted the prison and learned the emergency response team was on its way. She declined to comment on Friday.