TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Sep 23, 2022

Nashville-based private prison contractor CoreCivic faces two new lawsuits from the parents of inmates who died behind bars, Tennessee Lookout reports. The parents accuse the company of intentionally understaffing the four prisons it runs in Tennessee to boost profits for shareholders, holding costs at bay by refusing to seek outside medical care for ailing inmates, ignoring drug smuggling by its own guards, and failing to keep inmates safe. “CoreCivic needs to be held accountable, and the [parents] intend to do just that,” attorney Janet Goode wrote in one of two wrongful death lawsuits filed recently in U.S. District Court.