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ID: ACLU suing CCA for "Gladiator School" for $115 million in punitive damages

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 1:11 am ACLU Private Prison Lawsuit: Idaho Correctional Center, ?Gladiator School? By Beth There is currently an ACLU private prison lawsuit involving the Idaho Correctional Center known as ?gladiator school? among the inmates there. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Corrections Corporation of America, based out of Nashville, Tennessee, that runs Idaho?s only private prison and Idaho state prison officials. According to the lawsuit filed by the ACLU, Idaho Correctional Center is extraordinarily violent. They claim it is as much as three-times more violent than other Idaho prisons. They accuse the guards there of deliberately exposing inmates to brutal beatings by other prisoners as a way to keep prisoners in line...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 15, 2010 (boomark / email).