Protest Results in Three Arrests at CoreCivic’s Annual Shareholders Meeting by On May 10, 2018, drumbeats echoed and faux “blood” flowed through the parking lot at the Nashville, Tennessee headquarters of CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), as activists staged dramatic street theater to represent the sorrow, suffering and deaths …
Tennessee: Jail Guard Charged with Taser Assault by A Tennessee grand jury returned an indictment on September 5, 2017 that charged a former deputy with the Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) with using a stun gun to assault a pre-trial detainee at the county jail. Jordan E. Norris, 19, was …
Incorrect Cause of Tennessee Prisoner’s Death Reported by CoreCivic Employees by According to the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), state prisoner Edward Ray Gilley, Jr., 54, died on November 5, 2016 at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a facility owned and operated by CoreCivic – previously known as Corrections Corporation …
PLN Postcard-only Suit Against Knox County, Tennessee Settles for $87,000 by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On April 4, 2018, Prison Legal News settled a lawsuit over unconstitutional mail policies at a jail in Knoxville, Tennessee. The complaint centered around the censorship of 147 pieces of mail sent to prisoners …
Wrongful Death Suit Against Tennessee Town Settles for $6,000 by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin A $1 million lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died at the city jail in Kingsport, Tennessee following a 2015 DUI arrest settled on February 28, 2017 for just $6,000. Judy Honaker …
In the Public Interest - An Examination of Private Financing for Correctional and Immigration Detention Facilities, 2018 An examination of private financing for correctional and immigration detention facilities Report · In the Public Interest · June 2018 While governments have traditionally used municipal bonds to finance the construction of correctional …
McGaw v. Sevier County, TN, Order, Intoxication Neglect, 2018 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE SAMUEL M. McGAW, JR., et al., ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, v. SEVIER COUNTY, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants. No. 3:15íCVí00012 REEVES/GUYTON MEMORANDUM AND ORDER This …
$14.3 Million Settlement for Probationers Subject to Extortion by Private Company by Pathways (formerly Providence) Community Corrections (PCC) and officials in Rutherford County, Tennessee agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over predatory practices by the for-profit probation company. The $14.3 million settlement provides compensation for nearly 30,000 people who were …
Tennessee: New Trial Ordered in Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Case by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On April 5, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a lawsuit over the death of 33-year-old Charles “Jason” Toll – a prisoner who died in 2010 after being forcibly …
Exclusive! Incorrect Cause of Tennessee Prisoner’s Death Reported by CoreCivic Employees by According to the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), state prisoner Edward Ray Gilley, Jr., 54, died on November 5, 2016 at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a facility owned and operated by CoreCivic – previously known as …
Breaking News! Tennessee: New Trial Ordered in Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Case by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On April 5, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a lawsuit over the death of 33-year-old Charles “Jason” Toll – a prisoner who died in 2010 after …
California Prisoners File Class-action Suit Seeking Hepatitis C Treatment by Greg Dober by Gregory Dober In 2013, the FDA approved two new life-saving hepatitis C (HCV) drugs known as simeprevir (brand named Olysio) and sofosbuvir (brand named Sovaldi). The drugs, a new class of medication called direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), were …
Tennessee Sheriff Offered “Church Release” to Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Maury County, Tennessee Sheriff Bucky Rowland was elected to office in 2014 on a platform that promoted prisoner rehabilitation. While it is not unusual for an elected official to give lip service to the concept of rehabilitating …
Johnson v. CoreCivic complaint, wrongful death, 2018 Case 1:18-cv-01051-STA-egb Document 1 Filed 03/26/18 Page 1 of 9 PageID 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE JACKSON DIVISION CAROLYN JOHNSON, as survivor and next of kin of EARL WAYNE JOHNSON, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. CORECIVIC, INC., …
Major Scabies Outbreak at CoreCivic Facility in Tennessee by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Three lawsuits, filed in June and July 2017, allege corrections officials ignored an outbreak of scabies at the Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility (MDCDF) in Nashville, Tennessee. Affecting 89 prisoners, the outbreak also spread to at …
Tennessee Drug Court Judge Imprisons Participants for Smoking Cigarettes by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin In November 2017, Hamilton County, Tennessee Judge Tom Greenholtz sent several drug court participants to jail for a night after their drug tests came back positive – for nicotine. “We routinely test for nicotine as …
Keeping Kids and Parents Parents Together, a Healthier Approach to Sentencing in Tennessee, 2018 Keeping Kids and Parents Together A Healthier Approach to Sentencing in Tennessee February 2018 humanimpact.org Executive Summary It carries on throughout their life that their mother or father had to go away for a while. If …
Higdon v. USA, TN, Opinion, Discharging Firearm as Use of Force, 2018 RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 18a0030p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DARYL LYNN HIGDON, Petitioner-Appellant, ┐ │ │ > v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent-Appellee. │ │ …
Organizations Acting as Government Subject to Public Records, Open Meetings Laws by David Reutter by David Reutter A Tennessee Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s decision that the Jefferson County Economics Development and Oversight Committee, Inc. (EDOC) is not subject to provisions of the State Public Records and Open …
CoreCivic Prison in Tennessee Plagued with Problems by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Less than two years after opening the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC) in January 2016, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) imposed a $43,750 fine against the prison’s private operator, Nashville-based CoreCivic. Formerly known as Corrections …
