Tennessee’s privately run prisons are lagging behind the state-run prisons in reporting coronavirus infections among inmates. Two weeks ago, CoreCivic-run Trousdale Turner Correctional Center reported nearly 1,300 inmates had tested positive for the coronavirus there. That prompted Gov. Bill Lee to announce that all Tennessee inmates would be tested. The Tennessee Department of Correction has been posting those results on its website, and they were updated on Tuesday. But two of the state’s other three privately run prisons are still reporting results for only a handful of inmates. In all, TDOC reports that 2,500 inmates at all 14 prisons are either positive for the coronavirus or have recovered.
Tennessee's private prisons lag in coronavirus reporting
May 14, 2020 | 5:00 AM