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| OpEd: Metro's jails have complex arrangement |
| By Tennessean |
| Published: 04/23/2008 |
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TENNESSEE - Nashville's correctional responsibilities for the incarcerated population are unique and difficult to understand. It is the only system in the state that involves four different agencies: the Davidson County Sheriff's Office (DCSO), Metro Public Health Department, Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a private provider of correctional services. Local jails became severely overcrowded in the 1980s, and conditions were deemed unconstitutional in federal court. The court found TDOC partly responsible for the overcrowding because convicted felons were being left in county jails due to lack of state prison beds. As a result, the county workhouse was closed and the Metro Detention Facility was built. In 1990, CCA was awarded a contract to manage a prison for offenders serving one- to six-year felony sentences. In any other system, this would be considered a state prison, but in Davidson County, the state and local government agreed to house these offenders locally with CCA managing the population. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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