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Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD)
The federal government routinely awards contracts to companies with
histories of misconduct, including
…
contract fraud and other
violations. POGO believes that providing this website will help to
improve contracting decisions and increase public knowledge of how
the government spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year.
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Castillon, et al. v. CCA (Assault at Idaho CC)
A lawsuit alleged a pattern of misconduct at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), which is operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Specifically, the lawsuit alleged CCA encouraged violent gang activity at the facility, to the point that gangs were used in lieu of correctional officers to maintain control over the inmate population. The plaintiffs, inmates at ICC, suffered serious injuries after they were attacked in May 2012 by inmates believed to be members of two organized gangs. In March 2017, a jury found that CCA “was deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of serious harm to Plaintiffs and disregarded it by failing to take reasonable measures to address it, in violation of their Eighth Amendment rights” and that CCA “had a widespread or longstanding practice or custom of understaffing at ICC.” But the jury found the plaintiffs failed to prove the understaffing caused the violation, and thus awarded no damages.
- Misconduct Type
- Human Rights
- Enforcement Agency
- Non-Governmental
- Contracting Party
- State/Local
- Court Type
- Civil
- Disposition
- Judgment Against Defendant
- Date of Original Complaint
- 11/9/2012