OAN Staff James Meyers
3:02 PM – Wednesday, August 21, 2024
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that it will investigate Tennessee’s biggest prison for assaults, sexual abuse and murders.
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The DOJ has launched an investigation into Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a private prison opened by CoreCivic in 2016 and the largest prison in the state. This comes after reports of sexual and physical abuse inside the prison.
According to The Washington Post, the prison allegedly had 196 assaults, two murders and 90 cases of sexual assault reported from July 2022 to June 2023.
“People are incarcerated at Trousdale Turner as punishment for their crimes, but in our legal system, punishment does not and cannot include violence and sexual abuse,” DOJ Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Civil Rights…
