Hardeman County Correctional Facility News 2022 (2024)

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What is the biggest problem in corrections today? ›

Hardeman County Correctional Facility is owned by the Hardeman County Correctional Facilities Corporation, which contracts with CoreCivic for management of the prison.

In September 2022, Gordon and three other incarcerated men were involved in an attack in Whiteville Correctional Facility in which two other men were stabbed, according to the lawsuit brought by his widow.

Overcrowding, violence and abuse proliferate at jails across the country, as staffing problems make long-simmering problems worse. In California, lawyers accused staff at the Los Angeles County jail of chaining mentally ill detainees to chairs for days at a time.

Corruption in prison usually occurs because of three factors: coercion, recruitment, or emotional blackmail. Sometimes an inmate will use coercion and threaten a prison official or their family if he or she does not comply and smuggle contraband into the prison.

Hardeman County was created by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1823 from parts of Hardin County and "Indian lands." It is named for Thomas J. Hardeman (1788-1854), a veteran of the Creek War and the War of 1812 and a prominent figure in the fight for Texas independence.

Trousdale and South Central are two of the four Tennessee prisons operated by private contractor CoreCivic. Because the state is only allowed to have one privately operated prison at a time, South Central is the only state-owned facility that contracts with CoreCivic directly.

For example, several states now house or intend to house members of special populations, such as inmates who are HIV-positive, mentally ill, or on death row, in supermax facilities. Inmate gang members, regardless of whether they have been disruptive, are also being placed in supermax prisons.

An FDLE case report states the murder happened on July 27, 2022, inside Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Milton. The victim was 35-year-old Andrew Thompson, according to the report.

How does CoreCivic make money? ›

In 2020, CoreCivic reported $1.9 billion in revenue, 82.2% of that coming from its private prison operations. Only 3.4% of CoreCivic's revenue was generated through “Community” contracts, such as the one it holds with CDCR. The majority of CoreCivic and GEO Group's revenues come from their private prison business.

An analysis of data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics by The Appeal revealed that Alabama's prisons are the most crowded in the country.

Texas has the highest prison population with 133,772 individuals, followed by California with 101,441 individuals. On the other hand, the states with the lowest prison populations are Vermont with 1,287 individuals and Maine with 1,577 prisoners.

Hardeman County, Tennessee has 667.8 square miles of land area and is the 5th largest county in Tennessee by total area.

Overcrowding, as well as related problems such as lack of privacy, can also cause or exacerbate mental health problems, and increase rates of violence, self-harm and suicide.

Racial Disparity in Criminal Justice

In the United States, one of the most significant practical and ethical issues in criminal justice has long been racial disparity. As tensions in this area continue to mount, public scrutiny of racial equity within the criminal justice system will only intensify.

Incarcerated People Living with Mental Health Conditions

Recent research by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that more than half of all people in prison have mental health issues. In fact, around 1.25 million inmates live with mental health conditions. This is over four times the number in 1998.