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(AP) The leading private prison company in the U.S. has spent more than $4.4 million to settle dozens of complaints alleging mistreatment including at least 22 inmate deaths at its Tennessee prisons and jails since 2016...
More than $1.1 million of those payouts involved Tennessee's largest prison, the long-scrutinized Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, which is now under federal investigation...
Details of nearly 80 settlements provided to The Associated Press through public records requests allege brutal beatings, medical neglect and cruelty at CoreCivic's four prisons and two jails in Tennessee...
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced an investigation of Trousdale, noting that reports of violence have been endemic since its 2016 opening. The investigation comes after years of well-documented reports of physical assaults, sexual assaults, murders and unchecked flow of contraband and severe staffing shortages, U.S. Attorney Henry Leventis has said...
The settled lawsuits claim that even critical staff positions are sometimes unfilled at CoreCivic prisons, leaving inmates unprotected and unable to get help when attacked...
