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Tennessee Court Again Orders CCA to Produce Records in PLN Public Records Case
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2012, page 45
On December 1, 2011, Chancellor Claudia C. Bonnyman of the Chancery Court of Davidson County, Tennessee issued a bench ruling directing Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, to produce records in a long-standing public records lawsuit filed against the company.
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Disclosure of Records.
Location:
Tennessee.
The suit was brought by …
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