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For-Profit Prison Corporation CoreCivic Sued for Death of Bahamian Immigrant

HeadlineFeb 20, 2023

The immigrant justice group Al Otro Lado has sued CoreCivic for the wrongful death of Anthony Jones, a Bahamian man who died of a heart attack at the Adams County Detention Center in Mississippi in December 2020. The suit says staff failed to send him to the hospital and waited at least nine minutes before administering CPR.

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