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U.S. Justice Department Investigating Tennessee CoreCivic Prison After Mother of Murdered Prisoner Reaches Settlement
Loaded on March 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2025, page 36
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Staffing,
Settlements,
Wrongful Death.
Location:
Tennessee.
Pointing to “reports of staffing shortages, physical and sexual assaults, murders and a 188% turnover rate among prison guards just last year,” the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on August 20, 2024, that it was launching a civil rights investigation into Tennessee’s troubled Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), ...
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