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Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD)
The federal government routinely awards contracts to companies with
histories of misconduct, including
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contract fraud and other
violations. POGO believes that providing this website will help to
improve contracting decisions and increase public knowledge of how
the government spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year.
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Schlitters v. CCA (Death at Kit Carson Correctional Center)
Tamara Schlitters sued Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for the death of her son, Jeffrey Buller, who died at the Kit Carson Correctional Center in Colorado in 2001. She claimed her son, who suffered from a hereditary condition that caused his breathing passages to swell, died because staff at the CCA-managed facility refused to fill his prescription shortly before he was scheduled to be released. The lawsuit was settled out of court in 2004.
- Misconduct Type
- Consumer Affairs
- Enforcement Agency
- Non-Governmental
- Contracting Party
- None
- Court Type
- Civil
- Disposition
- Settlement
- Date of Filing
- 3/24/2003
| Further Information |
Released |
| Complaint |
10/24/2009 |
