The Tennessee Department of Correction is proposing a two-year contract to maintain the state’s Community Corrections program but keeping a 15% funding reduction in place, finagling with the funds in a mild case of Tin Man’s disease. The intensive probation program with 300 positions in 13 agencies across the state resurfaced a couple of years […]

Three Tennessee senators’ unannounced visit to the Morgan County state prison where an officer was killed this year caused a flare-up for the Department of Correction commissioner, according to one of the state lawmakers. Sen. Tom Hatcher of Maryville, chairman of the Senate Corrections Oversight Subcommittee, Sen.