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The U.S. Department of Justice is launching a civil investigation into the conditions at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a notorious privately run prison plagued by understaffing, violence ...
Between July 2022 and June 2023, the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville saw at least 196 assaults, 90 incidents of sexual misconduct, two murders and 15 other deaths that the ...
On October 14, 2022 two correctional officers were flown to Nashville hospitals after being stabbed. Two inmates made an unprovoked attached against the officers around 8:45 pm CDT. [10] On November 6, 2022 three correctional officers were assaulted by inmates refusing to comply with orders to prepare for a scheduled head count.
The records, which provide information on CoreCivic’s operations from 2020 to 2022, show that thousands of hours of critical security posts at Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility were left ...
The Northwest Correctional Complex is a state prison located in Tiptonville, Lake County, Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction . [ 2 ] The facility can hold 2,391 inmates at a range of security levels.
Between 2022-2024, the state of Tennessee fined CoreCivic more than $29.5 million for inadequate staffing at four facilities. The Trousdale Turner Correctional Center had a 188% turnover rate in 2023, and understaffing is cited as cause in a lawsuit related to an inmate's death and a civil rights investigation by the US Department of Justice. [43]
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 ...
Rape and stabbing of 15-year-old Stacy Payne in her home. 22 years, 67 days The victim's 14-year-old sister was sleeping upstairs when she heard the screams of her sister. She called 911. Police found Ward still in the home when they arrived. Ward's first conviction was overturned in 2004 on the basis that pretrial publicity tainted the jury pool.