Friday, June 8, 2012

Retraction

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.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous08 June, 2012

    I now respect your blog again and will continue to read it.

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    1. thank you for reading, and for calling me on my BS.

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  2. Anonymous09 June, 2012

    Mike, I follow your information and share it with others. If there's follow up detail I need I almost always find it on the internet when it comes to CCA. Because of one mistake I wouldn't lose faith or respect for all that you and the information you bring forth on the atrocities committed by CCA, or their employees.

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    1. Anonymous10 June, 2012

      The problem with finding out information on the internet is that often what appears to be credible information turns out to be unreliable, poorly researched or completely false. It's important that independent media is available to tell the truth without corporate filtering, while at the same time maintaining some kind of journalistic integrity.

      Atrocity is a pretty serious word. I think of My Lai or Waco when you use a work like atrocity. Unless you know of an incident involving multiple intentional murders at the hands of private prison employees, I think you're overselling it when you use the word atrocity. When you oversell it, people stop taking you seriously.

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