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$500,000 CCA Escape/Hostage Damage Award Upheld

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2006 published in Prison Legal News September, 2006, page 16
Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Escapes, Damages, Contractor Liability. Location: Tennessee.

The Tennessee State Court of Appeals upheld a $500,000 compensatory damage award against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), to a woman who was taken hostage by an escaped CCA prisoner.

Mike Settle was a prisoner at Hardeman County Correctional Facility (HCCF), a CCA prison in Whiteville, Tennessee. On August …

 

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