And on Wednesday, a trial date was set for a lawsuit filed in federal court accusing the company of understaffing its prisons so badly that it contributed to the death of an inmate, the latest news in three wrongful death suits targeting Management & Training Corporation operations in Mississippi.
In July 2021, an inmate at that same facility in Marshall County died after receiving multiple skull fractures and lacerations on his body, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Mississippi. White started his investigation into MTC that same year. Staff at the prison "had a duty to exercise ordinary care for the inmates," court documents read. But instead, they "breached that duty by failing to use the ordinary care that a reasonable person would use to avoid and prevent injury."
The company's website lists two correctional facilities operating in Mississippi, the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility and the East Mississippi Correctional Facility. For about a year, according to the complaint, Mitchell was documented harming himself and seeking medical attention. In April 2021, he died by suicide.In another wrongful death suit filed in June 2022, the family of Jeremy T. Russell says he fell victim to a similar series of events. Housed at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, Russell was suicidal, the complaint claims. But the day before his death, on Oct.