Current and former state officials created a “toxic” environment that led to abuses in the prison, both before—and in the eight months since—the deadly takeover of the Smyrna facility, lawyers for an inmate at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center’s C Building said in a new federal court filing on Oct. 5.
The amended complaint mirrors previous allegations by Donald Parkell, who claimed to have been taken hostage during the nearly 19-hour ordeal earlier this year.
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