How Tennessee's smallest county benefits from its largest private prison
Trousdale County with a population of about 12,000 is Tennessee's smallest county by area at 117 square miles. The county ...
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Tennessee Correction Department requests $6.8 million increase in private-prison payout
The Tennessee Department of Correction wants to pay $6.8 million more to the state's private-prison operator next year ...
Tennessee prisons seek $6.8M budget boost for CoreCivic amid DOJ investigation
Tennessee has charged CoreCivic $29.6 million in fines for contract violations across all four of its prisons since 2022.
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Homicide at High Desert State Prison raises questions about facility’s readiness
The incident is now raising alarming questions about the facility’s readiness to handle the most violent criminals in the ...
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Tennessee congressman pushes for cell phone signal jammers in prisons
David Kustoff (R-Tennessee) plans to present a bill next congressional session to allow cell phone jamming technology in state prisons ... into a brick and useless inside the facility,” Strada ...
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Vacancy rate, assaults up in Tennessee prisons this year
The few statistics available in the Tennessee Department of Correction’s 2024 annual report show the state’s prisons are more understaffed and violent than before the pandemic. The report ...
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Report: Vacancy, turnover rates for correctional officers up in Tennessee prisons
According to an annual report from the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), the vacancy rate for correctional officers in state-run prisons rose to 27.6 percent this year, which is up 6.1 ...
Tennessee Correction Department requests $6.8M increase in private-prison payout
The Tennessee Department of Correction wants to pay $6.8 million more to the state’s private-prison operator next year ...