An inmate at CoreCivic's Trousdale Turner prison in Tennessee is suing prison administrators for allowing gang members to assault him. (Photo: Kansas Reflector)

A Trousdale Turner Correction Center inmate serving time at a privately-run prison in Tennessee is suing the warden and staff for allowing gang members to assault him and extort money from his mother.

Filed in May in U.S. District Court in Nashville, the lawsuit claims gang members at the CoreCivic prison in Trousdale County threatened to assault inmate Charles Anderson if his mother and two family friends didn’t send them money, then beat and sexually assaulted him anyway after he complained to prison staff.

Trousdale Turner already faces a federal civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for gang violence a

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