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First published on WhyIHateCCA
In the interest of fairness and accuracy, I apologize for rushing to judgment on CCA without getting the full story of what happened in the beating death of Micheal Minick in Tennessee. He was not beaten by CCA guards and to my knowledge had no direct interaction with CCA employees. However, since CCA manages pretrial detainees for the county, they are being sued in their official capacity for failure to protect him from harm and deliberate indifference, essentially the same charges that have been brought against the city government (and rightfully so). CCA and its employees had no direct involvement in Mr. Minick’s death and in the grand scheme of things could hardly be considered responsible. But if the company wishes to assume inherent governmental functions, it should at least be prepared to deal with lawsuits like this.
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If the City is the employer of CCA and CCA has certain duties associated with the contract with the employer and the failure in addressing those duties resulted in Minick’s death, it would seem as though they are culpable.
But you did state that it was sheriff’s deputies who did the beating in your original post.
Thanks for this. It’s important to admit when we screw up, something I wish more of us would realize.