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The Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs Facility is a maximum-security prison in Nashville, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. Opened in 1992, the facility houses prisoners with multiple and complex medical problems. The facility has a 250 bed-per-month turnover. [2]
The Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, formerly the Tennessee Prison for Women, is a Tennessee Department of Correction prison for women located in Nashville, Tennessee. [ 2 ] DJRC, the state's primary women's correctional facility, houses women of all custody levels.
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.
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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 ...
Investigators said Thomas also deceived the Tennessee Department of Correction by showing the county jail as the inmate location in the state’s offender management system rather than the ...
In 1997, a prisoner sued two prison guards, alleging he had been subject to "very tight physical restraints." [5] The suit went to the Supreme Court of the United States as Richardson v. McKnight. [5] On September 1, 2013, inmate Gerald Ewing was killed in a fight after three days of lockdowns and sporadic, simultaneous fights at the facility. [6]
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