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TN: CCA Faces Scrutiny After Man Dies in Jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Friends and comrades: Yet another prisoner has died in the solitary confinement unit in the Metropolitan Nashville Detention Facility (MNDF). Terry Battle, a Black prisoner, died in June '08, and his case was only disclosed over the Thanks-taking holiday, in the Nov. 28th edition of the Nashville Tennesseean. This is the 13th prisoner to die at this facility to die from criminal medical neglect or physical abuse by guards since 2000. No one has been prosecuted in any case, due to collusion and cover-up by state, local and federal officials. The article is below. Lorenzo Komboa Ervin Power to the People Nashville, TN. powertonashvillepeople@gmail.com CCA faces scrutiny after man dies in jail Family says death was preventable By Chris Echegaray ? THE TENNESSEAN ? November 28, 2008 The nation's largest private prison operator is under scrutiny again ? this time from the relatives of a man who died of pneumonia while incarcerated in a Metro jail in Nashville...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).