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| Lawmaker: Prison officers' concerns warrant investigation |
| By tennessean.com- Dave Boucher |
| Published: 08/13/2015 |
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After working three straight 16-hour days recently, Billy Stewart doesn't remember driving home from his job as an officer at DeBerry Special Needs Facility in Nashville. Too tired, he said. He wasn't officially forced to stay for all of that time, but he said he felt it was a "necessity" and he was "obligated" to fill the position because it requires specialized training that others who were available did not have. Officer Colton Smith is still taking medicine to ensure the urine that was thrown in his face by a DeBerry inmate months ago doesn't give him hepatitis. He isn't sure how the inmate was punished, but he doesn't think the incident was considered an assault on an officer. On multiple occasions in the past year, inmates threw urine or other fluids into the faces of officers at Morgan County Correctional Complex, according to incident reports obtained by The Tennessean. Those altercations were deemed a "staff/inmate provocation," contradicting legislative testimony given by a Tennessee Department of Correction official on Monday. Read More. |
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