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| Private Prison Company CCA in Contempt of Court |
| By abcnews.go.com - REBECCA BOONE Associated Press |
| Published: 09/17/2013 |
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The nation's largest private prison company is being held in contempt of court by a federal judge for chronic understaffing at an Idaho prison. U.S. District Judge David Carter made the ruling against the Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America in a scathing 24-page ruling issued Monday. In it, Carter took the company to task for lying about staffing levels and warned that he would make the fines as big as needed to force CCA's compliance with a settlement agreement it reached two years ago with Idaho inmates and the American Civil Liberties Union. "If a prospective fine leads to $2.4 million in penalties, CCA has no one to blame but itself," Carter wrote. The contempt finding stems from a case that began in 2010 when the ACLU sued on behalf of inmates at the prison south of Boise, contending that the facility was so violent that prisoners called it "Gladiator School" and that understaffing and mismanagement contributed to the problem. Read More. |
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