Tag: Puryear
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 02:34:21 PM EST
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Via Mother Jones:
Tennessee's next trial court judge might be a prison company executive who has less courtroom experience than most inmates.
His name is Gustavus Adolphus Puryear IV:
Puryear has spent the bulk of his legal career at the Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest private prison company. As its general counsel since 2001, Puryear has made millions of dollars working for a company that profits from the country's incarceration boom, particularly through his recent sale of more than $3 million worth of the company's stock. (His financial disclosure form shows a net worth of more than $13 million.
...According to his written questionnaire for the committee, of the two cases he has tried in the entirety of his legal career, he was lead counsel on one of them. The last time he litigated a case in federal court was more than a decade ago.
Puryear oversees the defense of Correction Corps of America to inmate lawsuits. [More...]
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