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Tennessee Private Prison Gets State’s First LGBTQ+ Group
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2023
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2023, page 41
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Advocacy,
Transgender Medical Procedures.
Location:
Tennessee.
As reported in Filter Magazine on July 26, 2023, Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) has become the birthplace of “Be the Change” (BTC), the first known openly LGBTQ+ community in any of the state’s 14 prisons.
A private medium-security prison operated for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) by ...
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