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CCA Settles New Mexico "Failure To Protect" Suit For $41,885
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2002, page 11
CCA Settles New Mexico "Failure To Protect" Suit For $41,885
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Prison Rebellion,
Crime/Demographics,
Informants,
Failure to Protect (General),
Premises Liability.
Location:
New Mexico.
In February 2001, representatives for the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) agreed to settle a prisoner lawsuit for $41,885. Marco Lopez filed the suit in a federal district court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after he was beaten by rioting prisoners ...
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