spoliation

A U.S. judge sanctioned private prison company CoreCivic for destroying video evidence in a wrongful death lawsuit involving Kesley Vial, a 23-year-old Brazilian asylum-seeker who died by suicide in ICE custody. The sanction, the first of its kind against a private prison corporation, led to an undisclosed settlement with Vial’s family, marking a rare accountability measure for evidence destruction in immigration detention cases.