Largest U.S. private prison operator faces lawsuit after inmate was killed a day before his release
Attorney Ben Raybin, who is suing CoreCivic on behalf of the Vogel family, told CBS News he believes the challenges at the company’s facilities come down, in part, to staffing.
“This is a company that makes tens of millions of dollars every year and yet leaves its prisons understaffed,” Raybin said in an interview with CBS News.
Raybin argues that staffing concerns were behind the company’s decision to give a lower risk rating to the man accused in Vogel’s death, cellmate Travis Bess. Bess had been convicted in 2014 of killing a previous cellmate.