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Prisons consider changing assault reporting, staff schedules
By wkrn.com- Travis Loller
Published: 10/15/2015

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Correction Commissioner Derrick Schofield says the department will look into changing the way it reports assaults and the way it schedules workers – both issues that critics say have led to increasing violence in state prisons.

Schofield spoke Wednesday to the Senate Corrections Subcommittee. He was responding to recommendations in a recent audit of state prisons.

Schofield said the department will survey prison workers about the 28-day work schedule that critics blame for a spiking turnover rate that has left some facilities short staffed.

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