Tennessee lawmakers send message to private prisons

Debate surfaces over Vermont’s for-profit prison contracts

Lawmakers and officials agree it isn’t ideal to imprison Vermonters out of state, but they say bringing them back would put in-state prisons dangerously over capacity. By Charlotte Oliver, for the Community News ServiceA sign for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, where Vermont sends people to be imprisoned. Photo courtesy Thomas R. Machnitzki, Wikimedia CommonsThe state pays to incarcerate 117 Vermonters in a Mississippi prison owned by one of t…

Tennessee lawmakers send message to private prisons

Tennessee’s legislature put the state’s private-prison operator on notice to keep death rates down or face a reduction in inmates, a move that could cut its state payments. House members voted 93-0 Monday in favor of House Bill 1144 by…

Senate Public Safety Committee Chair Responds to Inmate Murders with Probe into Department of Corrections Operations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                      Monday, April 21, 2025Senate Public Safety Committee Chair Responds to Inmate Murders with Probe into Department of Corrections Operations PHOENIX, ARIZONA— Senate Public Safety Committee Chairman Kevin Payne is launching a probe of the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, & Reentry (ADCRR) in response to the murders of three …