Hardeman County Correctional Facility News 2022 (2024)

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What happened at Whiteville Correctional Facility? ›

Gordon killed two years into sentence

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.

TDOC contracts for 1,976 medium security beds at this prison. Offenders participate in academic and vocational programs, mental health programs, and various work programs much as they do at TDOC owned and operated prisons.

It is also owned and operated by CoreCivic, opened in 2002, and also houses medium-security prisoners for the state.

The Department of Corrections is a state agency responsible for providing county jails oversight and setting standards for criminal holding facilities in the State.

Facility Leader: Chance Leeds, Warden.

It is also owned and operated by CoreCivic, opened in 1997, and also houses medium-security prisoners for the state.

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.

There is only one federal supermax prison in America: The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, also called the ADX. The ADX is located in Florence, Colorado.

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.

What is the biggest correctional facility? ›

Los Angeles County Jail is the largest prison in the whole of America. The inmate population is just under 20,000. The huge size of Los Angeles County Jail means it requires a lot of care and management. Its budget is over $700m and there are 1,500 inmates transported to court each day.

The Tennessee Department of Correction consists of 14 state prisons located across the state. Ten of these prisons are operated by the department and four are managed privately by CoreCivic.

On June 17, 1988, eight convicts, three being murderers on death row, escaped from the Kentucky State Penitentiary.

Name. In the United States, Mexico, and Canada, warden is the most common title for an official in charge of a prison or jail. In some U.S. states including New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, California, and Hawaii, the post may also be known as a superintendent.

The plaintiffs allege that CoreCivic forced them to work for as little as $1 per day in Stewart's so-called “Voluntary Work Program” (Program) under threat of deprivation of basic necessities and punishment, including solitary confinement, in violation of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

CoreCivic has been hit with a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that alleges the nation's largest prison owner and operator has failed to pay proper overtime wages by requiring staff to undergo unpaid, off-the-clock security screenings.

Deandre Roney, 39, was stabbed to death at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Roney was classified as minimum custody and was 18 months away from completing a 20-year sentence.