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TRICOR, the prison industry, also manages a data entry plant and print shop at the prison. Inmates not involved in academic vocation, or industry programs are required to work in support service roles throughout the facility. Male death row prisoners live at Riverbend. [1] The state's electric chair and lethal injection gurney are located at ...
Journalist Steven Hale spent several years meeting with condemned prisoners at a maximum security prison in Tennessee and interviewing the people who visit and befriend them. Hale talks to CNN ...
Donnie Johnson, 68, declined to spend the $20 death row inmates at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution can use for their last meal and opted to have what the general prison population ate, the ...
Media listen to the announcement of the execution of Tennessee death row inmate Stephen Michael West outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution Thursday, Aug.15, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn.
Male death row prisoners are housed in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. All female death row inmates are housed at the Tennessee Prison for Women. [10] Men are housed in dedicated death row units, while women are not housed in special death row units because few women go on death row. Executions occur at the Riverbend Maximum ...
These claims were backed up by several correctional officials at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, who said that Sutton was a Christian convert and model inmate who cared for the sick inmates on death row, and had even saved guards' lives during prison riots. [2]
A death row inmate convicted of raping and killing his friend's 9-year-old ... A lethal injection bed inside an execution chamber is pictured at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in ...
It was also the first use of Tennessee's electric chair after it was retrofitted by Fred A. Leuchter and moved to Riverbend from the former Tennessee State Prison. Holton was the third death row inmate executed under administration of Governor Phil Bredesen. He was also the first American put to death by electrocution since July 20, 2006.