TN Republicans want a new public prison, as its private prison asks for more state dollars

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TN Republicans want a new public prison, as its private prison asks for more state dollars

Tennessee’s Department of Correction is asking for nearly $7 million in public funds to go toward the state’s for-profit prisons — a fraction of the money the state has fined the private prison operator, CoreCivic, for not fulfilling all aspects of its contract. CoreCivic has had to pay nearly $45 million in fines since 2022, mostly for understaffing. One of its prisons, Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, has the highest homicide rate of any …