The TDOC has fined Corecivic over $2 million for contract violations at TTCC.
Corecivic's profit model is built around understaffing
and constant lockdowns of poorly run, exceedingly dangerous prisons.
Thus, while TDOC facilities housed 70% of the state's prison population on average,
twice as many homicides occurred in Corecivic facilities.
The only acceptable solution to the human rights disaster that Corecivic has been allowed to create is
to shut this corporation down.
The findings come despite the fact that Corecivic is operating fewer prisons than TDOC,
housing a much smaller total prison population than TDOC and operates mostly medium-security facilities.
In 2018, the federal government spent $7.4 billion on immigration detention and processing,
with private prison companies like GEO Group and Corecivic being top beneficiaries from the surge in spending.
In terms of the“concentration” of prisoners with homicide convictions, using the data in the TDOC's FY 2018 report,
an average 15.25% of the population at the four Corecivic prisons included prisoners with homicide convictions.
In terms of“concentration” of prisoners with homicide convictions, using the data on page 25 of the TDOC's FY 2018 report,
an average 15.25% of the population at the four Corecivic prisons included prisoners with homicide convictions.
A July report from the Human Rights Defense Center(HRDC)
and No Exceptions Prison Collective found that Corecivic, a private for-profit prison operator,
reported twice as many homicides at its four Tennessee prisons than the Tennessee Department of Corrections(TDOC) recorded at its ten state-run facilities in the same five year time period.