Murder rate higher in state’s privately run prisons, advocacy groups say
Tennessee prisons operated by CoreCivic experienced twice as many inmate murders over a five-year period as state Department of Correction-run facilities, according to two advocacy groups.
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Alex Friedmann CoreCivic Jeannie Alexander Neysa TaylorSam Stockard
Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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