The leading private prison company in the US has spent more than $4.4 million to settle dozens of complaints alleging mistreatment—including at least 22 inmate deaths—at its Tennessee prisons and jails since 2016. More than $1.
The leading private prison company in the US has spent more than $4.4 million to settle dozens of complaints alleging mistreatment—including at least 22 inmate deaths—at its Tennessee prisons and jails since 2016.
The family’s attorney, Daniel Horwitz, was ordered by a judge to stop publicly disparaging CoreCivic and to take down tweets calling it a “death factory.” He is suing over the gag order. The largest settlement was for $900,000 over a South Central Correctional Facility inmate’s suicide where staff falsified records. Three others were for about $300,000 apiece.
The settlements make up a fraction of the lawsuits CoreCivic has faced over its Tennessee facilities. The 22 death settlements are also only a fraction of the 300-plus deaths in the four CoreCivic prisons since 2016. Yet state leaders have consistently downplayed the problems and renewed contracts with CoreCivic, a company that figures prominently in political spending. Tennessee is CoreCivic’s largest state customer, accounting for 10% of total revenue in 2023, according to a corporate filing. CEO Damon Hininger has even floated running for governor in 2026.
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