Stockard on the Stump: Private-prison operator to see inmate reduction after riot

Stockard on the Stump: Private-prison operator to see inmate reduction after riot

Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility, which is managed by CoreCivic. (Photo: Tennessee Department of Corrections)The Tennessee Department of Correction will be reducing the number of inmates at privately-run Trousdale Turner in the wake of a prison riot that injured a staffer and inmates, according to state officials. Republican Sen. Mark Pody told the Lookout he spoke with Correction Department officials after the incident last weekend in Har…