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B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail album features a live recording of a concert that he performed for the jail's inmates on September 10, 1970. A live album Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail featuring performances by jazz musicians Jimmy McGriff and Lucky Thompson was released on the Groove Merchant label in 1973)
In 1999, the Department opened the first Security Threat Group in the Southeastern Tennessee State Regional Correctional Facility (Renamed Bledsoe County Correctional Complex). In 2000, the Governor signed legislation making lethal injection, rather than electrocution, the standard method of execution for any person sentenced to death.
This is a list of state prisons in Tennessee. The only federal prison in Tennessee is Federal Correctional Institution, Memphis in Shelby County , although there is a Residential Reentry Management operated by the Bureau of Prisons in Nashville .
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The most recent comprehensive report on Cook County Jail inmate mortality rates, published in 2007 in the Journal of Urban Health, found that from 1995 to 2004, 178 inmates died in the jail, an ...
CHICAGO — The family of an inmate brutalized inside Cook County Jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office.Attorneys representing the family of Johnny Hendrix, beaten ...
Average correctional officer vacancy rates for fiscal year 2023 were 30% for state-run facilities and 42% for CoreCivic facilities, which house over a third of Tennessee’s 19,000 prison inmates ...
Tennessee State Prison is a former correctional facility located six miles west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee on Cockrill Bend. It opened in 1898 and has been closed since 1992 because of overcrowding concerns. [1] The facility was severely damaged by an EF3 tornado in the tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2020. [2]