Former inmate awarded $307.6M over denied surgery

Jury awards $307.6M to former Michigan inmate over denied surgery — Kohchise Jackson says he served over two years with a leaking, foul-smelling colostomy bag, and says the state prison health provider, Corizon, refused to pay for the reversal as a cost-cutting move. “It was a horrible experience for me,” Jackson, 44, told Local 4. “Shame on you,” he added, “I’m still a human being at the end of the day.” “The evidence showed the companies spent decades making a calculated decision based on profit that the lives of prisoners didn’t matter,” said civil rights attorney Jon Marko of Marko Law. “No corporation is above the law.”