Giving families a voice: Lawmakers push family advisory board for Tennessee inmates

Giving families a voice: Lawmakers push family advisory board for Tennessee inmates

Tim Leeper, father of a man who died in Trousdale Turner Correction Center, said putting a new family advisory board under the authority of the legislature offers a better chance for accountability than placing it under the Department of Correction. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)Tennessee lawmakers are moving to create a family advisory board to hear prison safety complaints amid concerns about extortion and inmate deaths. Republican …