As CoreCivic receives state funds on individual prisoner basis, reducing the private company's prison population would cut into its earnings. CoreCivic facilities in Tennessee have ...

Tennessee’s private prisons could see a reduction in their inmate populations if death rates in the facilities continue to ...

Tennessee’s Senate passed legislation Monday that would force the state’s private-prison operator to lower the inmate population in facilities with high death rates. Senators voted 30-0 in ...

and the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCAT) created the "Building Trades" class, new this year and the first construction program at any female prison in the state. The class teaches ...