Riots. Inmate deaths. Understaffing. Inadequate medical care. In recent years, these issues have plagued facilities run by Brentwood-based CoreCivic, the country’s largest private prison operator.
Most recently, one inmate was killed and two others were hospitalized Aug. 7 following a fight at the CoreCivic-run South Central Correctional Facility in Wayne County. For the past year, the U.S. Department of Justice has been pursuing an investigation into conditions at the operator’s Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville — the facility that has reported some of the most harrowing claims of violence and death in CoreCivic prisons.
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