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This prison is operated and administered by CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) under contract to the Tennessee Department of Correction. [1] As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four CoreCivic prisons. [2] The state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, however, authorizes a single private prison for state ...
1966,formerly known as the Tennessee Prison For Women,renamed Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in 2020. Bledsoe County Correctional Complex Bledsoe: Pikeville: Houses 300 female inmates in a separate unit originally built as a men’s annex.
DJRC, the state's primary women's correctional facility, houses women of all custody levels. The prison serves as the state's new female prisoner intake and classification center, and it also houses all female death row inmates. [2] There is currently only one female on death row in the state of Tennessee, Christa Pike. Women on death row are ...
The Tennessee Commissioner of Correction is the head of the Tennessee Department of Correction, which supervises inmates in the state prisons of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The incumbent Commissioner of Correction is Frank Strada, who took office on January 9, 2023.
As of April 30, 2020, the Tennessee Department of Corrections supervised sixteen prisons (counting two women's prisons as distinct from the men's prisons on the same site), including four private prisons operated by CoreCivic. These facilities have a total of 24,069 beds and an operating capacity to house 23,202 imprisoned individuals.
An inmate died at the Shelby County Jail, commonly called 201 Poplar, Friday morning, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. TBI is investigating the death at the request of Shelby ...
As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four private prisons. [18] The state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, however, authorizes one single private prison for state inmates. [19] As of 2016 Tennessee technically contracts directly with CoreCivic for inmates held at South Central Correctional Facility. For Trousdale and the two ...
A Tennessee inmate was captured Thursday nearly a week after he and two others escaped from jail through an HVAC air vent, authorities said.. Johnny Shane Brown, 50, was captured Thursday without ...