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Tennessee DOC Accused of Covering Up Violent Incidents
Loaded on March 15, 2013
by Alex Friedmann
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2013, page 34
As previously reported in Prison Legal News, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has been experiencing higher levels of prisoner-on-prisoner and prisoner-on-staff violence since Commissioner Derrick Schofield was appointed in January 2011.
Filed under:
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Disciplinary Hearings,
False Charges (Disciplinary Hearings),
Failure to Protect (General),
Lockdowns,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
Tennessee.
The increased violence coincides with a number of policy changes implemented by Schofield that are widely perceived as ...
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