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CCA Pays $6,000 Settlement in Dangerous Conditions Causing Tennessee Prisoner’s Slip and Fall

Loaded on June 10, 2015

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Plumbing, Premises Liability. Location: Tennessee.

CCA Pays $6,000 Settlement in Dangerous Conditions Causing Tennessee Prisoner’s Slip and Fall

Corrections Corporation of America paid $6,184.71 to settle a claim brought by Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility prisoner James A. Reese, who alleged negligence for CCA’s improper housing of him and failure to provide safe conditions.

Reese was …

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