CoreCivic seeking to block prominent attorney from speaking out against its private prisons

[Tanuki]

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2022/06/17/corecivic-seeks-quiet-prominent-attorney-tennessee-prisons/7612508001/

"CoreCivic, a private prison company, is being sued over the death of an inmate last year.The company wants to limit a Nashville attorney's out-of-court comments on the case.The question sits before a federal judge.

CoreCivic wants to hide documents that show Tennessee's largest prison has never been in compliance with the staffing levels required by its state contract. 

The country's largest private prison company is pushing a federal judge to issue a gag order on Nashville attorney Daniel Horwitz. They want to limit him from commenting on court documents publicly and to delete disparaging Twitter posts.
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Horwitz is often outspoken on social media and called the company "cartoonishly evil"  with a "deliberate indifference to the health and safety of the inmates in its care" in a comment to The Tennessean. 

“There is no reason to be scared of this cartoonishly evil prison corporation unless you are an inmate housed at one of its chronically understaffed facilities," he said by text."...(more)

[MagickMuffin]

1. Let's hope the Federal judge isn't a corporatist judge

This privatize prison should be shut down just like all the others!