Judge Sanctioned Private Prison Giant for Destroying Evidence in ICE Death Suit

theintercept.com·Timothy Pratt
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Investigative Journalism

This article is investigative reporting that documents findings through evidence and sourcing. It is not considered a psychological operation.

This article is not considered a psychological operation. It reports on a judge's sanction against private prison company CoreCivic for destroying video evidence related to the suicide of Kesley Vial, a Brazilian asylum-seeker who died in ICE custody at a New Mexico detention facility. The article highlights the lack of accountability for private prison firms in similar past cases and underscores the significance of the court’s adverse inference ruling, which allowed a jury to assume the destroyed evidence would have been unfavorable to the company.

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