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Tennessee Jail Overcrowding is State's Fault

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News February, 1997, page 15
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Jail Specific. Location: Tennessee.
Tennessee is now spending over $100 million a year to house state prisoners in county jails - a 14% increase from the previous year. Despite 7,350 prison inmates being double-celled, state prisoners still overcrowd jails because the state has no room for them.

As of July 19, 1996, 2,056 felons ...

 

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