Former CCA Guards Slam Prison, Culture of Violence

Another round of lawsuits for CCA. They must keep their in-house legal council working around the clock trying to clean up the messes that their cost and corner cutting operations continually make.

Hopefully the public will wake up and see what a rip-off private prisons are. Do you really, really want the people getting paid - with your tax money - cutting corners on staffing and security at a prison in your community? Prisons that operate for profit encourage these practices all the while not caring about the overall cost to communities. It pays for them to cut staff; to leave you, the public, open to higher risk because every dime they cut from their operating costs is used to line the pockets of overpaid CEOs.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Three former employees at Idaho's only private prison say staff routinely failed to protect inmates, and in some cases put inmates in situations knowing they'd be beaten by others.
The statements from the former Idaho Correctional Center guards are in affidavits filed in a federal lawsuit against the prison's operator, Corrections Corporation of America.
The lawsuit was filed against CCA last year by inmate Marlin Riggs, who was badly beaten in his cell.
The three former employees claim the prison is understaffed, and steeped in a culture of laziness and lack of concern for inmate welfare.
They say staff at the prison, referred to as "Gladiator School," frequently assigned inmates to cell blocks knowing they'd likely be beaten.
CCA has denied the allegations in the lawsuit and is asking a judge to dismiss it.