TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 15, 2022

Tennessee-based CoreCivic and the family of a man who died at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center have settled a federal lawsuit, Associated Press reports. The suit was brought on behalf of G. Marie Newby, who died in February 2021 after his cellmate assaulted him, court records show. The lawsuit blamed low staffing levels and a failure by correctional officers to make timely rounds, and sought $10 million. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Nashville attorney Daniel Horwitz, who represented the family, called CoreCivic a “death factory.” In July, Magistrate Judge Jeffery Frensley ordered him to stop commenting on the case. State officials previously fined CoreCivic $2 million for problems at Trousdale.