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TDOC HISTORICAL TIMELINE

1700s Legislature employs three directors to create and coordinate a 1796 admitted to the Union system 1799 Act passes providing the death penalty for 1870 Convict leasing system begins leasing horse stealing inmates to the Tennessee Coal, Iron & 1800s Railroad Company; first program in the country 1813 First act passes to raise money to build a central ; no public support; concept 1871 Governor John Calvin Brown fails Office of Superintendent of 1819 Governor Joseph McMinn recommends created that the state fund construction of a 1873 Act passes for a new penitentiary for central prison; again no public support; farming and mining at Brushy Mountain concept fails 1877 Governor James Davis Porter 1829 Governor Act passes ruling prison labor will not Governor William Carroll compete with free-world industry Act passes to provide for building a public 1883 Governor William Brimage Bate jail and penitentiary house, state-funded Act passes prohibiting over 550 men in A five person Board of Inspectors one prison (including the Governor and Secretary of State as ex officio members) is created All now given physical examinations upon entry into the system 1831 Tennessee State Penitentiary (TSP) as provided by Legislative Act located just south of 7th Avenue and Broadway in Nashville, became 1885 Act passes to allow convicts good time in operational for both men and women; 65 diminution of their sentences inmates employed by public works 1890s Separate wing is built at TSP for female 1850s Inmates employed to build State Capitol inmates; prior to this, male and female offenders were housed in the same unit 1850 Governor Isham G. Harris 1891 Governor James Pierce Buchanan TSP moves to Church Street Insurrection by miners protesting the use Governor given power of executive of free inmate labor in mines; free-world clemency miners place inmate miners on train out of 1863 Union Army takes over TSP to use as a town causing the creation of the State ; all state prisoners were Militia moved to Brushy Mountain 1893 Convict leasing system is abolished 1865 Governor William Gannaway Brownlow 1895 Brushy Mountain Prison is built in Petros

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1898 TSP moves to new location in Cockrill 1913 Act passes authorizing a parole system Bend; not over 20% of the total cost of the and indeterminate sentencing for adult new prison was spent for materials offenders; act also changes death penalty purchased outside the State of from hanging to electrocution Tennessee 1915 Governor Thomas Clarke Rye The cost to house an inmate for one year was approximately $117.48 (.32/day) State Reformatory for Girls is founded in Tullahoma by the Tennessee Federation 1899 Governor Benton McMillan of Women’s Clubs Legislature approves resolution Legislature creates State Board of temporarily housing federal inmates from Controls to manage penal, reformatory, Tennessee and surrounding states to and charitable institutions generate income 1916 First man electrocuted in Tennessee 1900s 1918 Tennessee Reformatory for Negro Boys is 1900 New building for female inmates is founded in Pikeville opened within the walls of TSP State Reformatory for Girls receives its 1902 Board of Prison Commissioners created first girls by Legislature The cost to house an inmate for one year 1904 Suspension-by-thumbs abolished was approximately $230.57 (.63/day) legislatively as a means of for inmates 1919 Governor Albert Houston Roberts 1905 Governor John Isaacs Cox The State Board of Control is replaced by a Board for the Administration of State Behavior grading system initiated at Institutions composed of the Governor, Brushy Mountain state treasurer, and general manager of state organizations 1907 Governor Malcolm Rice Patterson 1921 Governor Alfred Alexander Taylor Act passes to create a juvenile facility for boys State Vocation School for Colored Girls is founded in Nashville 1908 One 10 year old and one 11 year old boy are committed to state prison; each to 1923 Governor serve 2-3 years for larceny and other related offenses Commissioner Lewis S. Pope 1911 Tennessee Reformatory for Boys in Administrative Reorganization Act passes Jordonia opens, under Governor Ben placing the administration of penal, Hooper, receiving 11-23 year old males reformatory, and charitable institutions for both determinate and indeterminate under the newly created Department of sentences Institutions Board of three prison commissioners TSP contracts with State for inmates to established by Governor Ben Hooper make license plates

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1902—Main Prison in Nashville

1897—State Prison Farm

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1927 Governor Henry H. Horton profit; Tennessee enacts legislation in accordance Commissioner Richard Lyle 1938 Fort Pillow State Penal farm is founded 1928 Shelby County Penal Farm is founded as as a medium security farming facility in a minimum security facility Lauderdale County, , to 1929 Act creates the Advisory Board of separate first-time offenders from the Pardons rest of the prison population 1930 New building for adult female offenders is 1939 Governor built, physically separate from TSP, but Commissioner Andrew T. Taylor still on its grounds and administratively dependent Habitual Criminal Act passes 1931 Advisory Board of Pardons creates a World War II - Private industry used system for parole eligibility prison labor 1933 Governor Harry Hill McAllister The Department of Institutions and Public Welfare is divided into two Commissioner Edwin W. Cocke, M.D. departments: Department of Institutions Legislature creates an Industrial Division and Department of Public Welfare of the Department of Institutions 1941 Commissioner W. O. Baird, MD 1933 New Brushy Mountain Prison is being 1945 Governor Jim Nance McCord built in Petros Commissioner W. O. Baird, MD 1936 Commissioner Barton Brown 1951 Boys’ Reformatories became State 1937 Governor Training and Agriculture Schools Commissioner George Cate, Sr. 1953 Governor Frank Goad Clement The Administrative Reorganization Act is Commissioner Keith Hampton amended, creating the Department of Institutions and Public Welfare, including Responsibility for mental health facilities Confederate Soldier’s Home, School for is transferred from the Department of the Blind, School for the Deaf, Tennessee Institutions to form the Department of Industrial School at TSP, the Blind Mental Health Commission, Clover Bottom Developmental Center, three regional 1955 Classification System created at TSP psychiatric hospitals, and the Gailor The name of the Department of Center Institutions is changed to the Act creates Board of Pardons and Department of Correction (DOC) Paroles; appointments made by the State Training Schools for boys are Governor and the Board is chaired by renamed State Vocation Training Commissioner of DIPW Schools for White Boys (Jordonia) and U.S. Supreme Court rules no sale of Colored Boys (Pikeville) prison-made products to other states for 1956 Corporal punishment for juveniles is

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1922—Brushy Mountain coal Mine

1922—Tennessee State Pententiary

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abolished (reinstated 1957) institutions 1957 Act establishes the Division of Juvenile Corporal punishment abolished for adult Probation offenders 1958 Statewide Juvenile Probation system New Tennessee Prison for Women, becomes operational Stewarts Lane, becomes operational. Former facility converted to Maximum security building, including Rehabilitation Center for males (day electric chair, is built at TSP program operated by Department of 1959 Governor Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation) Commissioner Keith Hampton 1967 Governor Buford Ellington 1960 William Tines is the last person executed in the State of Tennessee Commissioner Harry S. Avery prior to the Furman Decision DOC Central Office moved to Doctor’s 1961 Division of Adult Probation and Parole Building are established legislatively Work Release is established at Shelby Tennessee Youth Center in Joelton County Penal Farm founded as a forestry camp for boys Division of Religious Services is created 1963 Governor Frank G. Clement Correctional Rehabilitation Center Commissioner Harry S. Avery (CRC) in Nashville opens Act establishes Division of Youth 1968 Treatment services initiated at TSP Services; provides for an Assistant Vocational Rehabilitation Unit opened Commissioner 1969 Commissioner Lake F. Russell Major changes in Parole Board: 5- member, part-time board; first black Opportunity House, Inc., becomes member is appointed operational; a half-way house for men in Nashville 1965 Juvenile institutions are desegregated and classified by age 3 adult institutions are reclassified: Brushy to maximum security; TSP to Intensive Treatment Rehabilitation medium, and Fort Pillow (now named Center for juveniles opens in Nashville Cold Creek Correctional Facility) to near Jordonia; operated by the minimum Department of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. 1970 Division of Rehabilitative Services is created legislatively State prison school is established and accredited Rehabilitation Act of 1970 provides for adult work release Mining operations at Brushy Mountain abandoned due to safety problems Act passes for relieving Commissioner of DOC as chair for Board of Pardons 1966 Cell blocks integrated at all adult

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1966—Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex

1966—Tennessee State Pententiary—Women’s Unit

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and Paroles; Chairman elected by Labor problems at Brushy Mountain Board members lead to closure of that institution DOC Central Office moved to Andrew Intensive Treatment Rehabilitation Jackson State Office Building Center for juveniles closed MTSU Diagnostic Center contracted for June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court rules juvenile offender psychological testing on Furman vs Georgia declaring death penalty unconstitutional; inmates under Interstate Compact established sentence of death were commuted to 1971 Governor life in prison Commissioner Mark Luttrell 1973 Mandatory death sentence imposed for those convicted of first degree murder Work Release Center opened in Chattanooga DOC Central Office moved to First American Center Tennessee Youth Development Center (TYDC) founded in Somerville Work Release Unit opened in Nashville (at the old Spencer ITC Unit) State Vocational Training School for Boys in Pikeville renamed James M. 1974 Group Homes for juveniles opened in Taft Youth Center; State Vocational Nashville and Memphis Training School for Boys in Jordonia Tennessee Corrections Institute (TCI) renamed Spencer Youth Center established to train DOC employees Turney Center for Youthful Offenders in Mandatory Death Sentence Act of 1973 Only became operational; facility named found unconstitutional after Governor , the first governor to advocate habilitation of Intensive Treatment Unit created at prisoners and housing juvenile Spencer Youth Center offenders separate from adult offenders Department embraces regional prison 1972 State Vocational Training School for concept and commences construction Girls in Nashville reverts to a reception on new prisons in Memphis and and diagnostic center for juveniles Morristown. The Morristown prison construction was stopped before 12-14 year old female offenders completion because of community transferred to TYDC making it the first opposition co-educational juvenile correctional institution in state’s history 1975 Governor State Vocational Training School for Commissioner Herman Yeatman girls in Tullahoma renamed Highland Rim School for Girls C. Murray Henderson replaces Yeatman as Commissioner Act reformulates three-member Board of Pardons and Paroles; Chairman Procedure changed and Governor appointed by the Governor; members appointed a new Chairman to Pardons will now be full time professionals and Paroles Board appointed by the Governor TYDC renamed John S. Wilder Youth

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1970—Turney Center and Industrial Prison

1970—Tennessee Prison for Women

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Development Center (WYDC) reinstated in Tennessee Bars removed from windows at 1978 7 group homes became operational: Highland Rim Knoxville, Lebanon, Oak Ridge, Elizabethton, 2 in Memphis, and the Inmate riot at Tennessee State Inman Group Home in Tullahoma Penitentiary WYDC stopped receiving girls; all girls 1976 U.S. Supreme Court rules Georgia's are received at and committed to death penalty constitutional. Several Highland Rim states follow suit, modeling their efforts after Georgia Board of Paroles expands its membership to five Brushy Mountain reopened Corporal punishment is abolished in Memphis Correctional Center opened juvenile institutions; the cells at Spencer (MCC) closed Ft. Pillow (now Cold Creek Correctional College programs are set up at Brushy Facility) is reclassified as medium for Roane State Community College security facility and Lincoln Memorial University WYDC received Governor’s Award for 1979 Governor Design Excellence Commissioner Harold B. Bradley Sit-down strike by inmates caused temporary lock-down at Brushy DOC Central Office moved to State Mountain Office Building The department is authorized to Nashville Work Release unit closed (old establish residential restitution centers Intensive Treatment Center at Spencer) and merged with the Community 1977 10 group homes for juveniles approved Rehabilitation Center through LEAA grant Labor dispute at Taft promoted Boys’ institutions reclassified: under 14 disturbance years - Wilder; 14-18 year old property offenders - Spencer; 14-18 year old Reorganization of the DOC repeat offenders and those who commit a against persons - Taft; TYC still Regional Prison at Cockrill Bend in has voluntary commitments Nashville opened; Wardens appointed at Bledsoe, Morgan, and Lake County DeBerry Correctional Institute for Regional Prisons to open in 1980-81 special needs offenders opens The computerized Offender Based State DOC is empowered to set up Correctional Information System demonstration projects involving inmate (OBSCIS) becomes operational labor and private industry to be know as Tennessee Restitution Industries Juvenile status offenders are released from institutions for placement in U.S. Supreme Court rules that death community-based programs or home penalty is constitutional; death penalty is Act passes to separate the Board of

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Pardons and Paroles from DOC; BOP 1982 The disbursement of funds for the becomes a five-member autonomous Supervision and Rehabilitation Fund unit and Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund is transferred from the Department Class-X bill becomes effective of Revenue to the Department of Wilder Youth Development Center Correction receives Certificate of Merit from UT- The department is required to undertake Martin a study and report to the Joint Extended furlough system abolished by Governmental Operations Committee legislature on reorganizing and staffing the department, increasing work Tennessee Reception and Guidance opportunities for inmates, and improving Center for Children is officially named performance and morale of correctional as such officers and other staff Five-year residency requirement for 1983 Commissioner William Long Commissioner of Correction is removed Federal Court appoints a Master to Sale of prison-made goods expanded to oversee correction of unconstitutional include private, non-profit organizations conditions that were found to exist in Grubbs vs Bradley Three more group homes became operational: Morning Star, Madisonville, Highland Rim School for Girls closed and Bradley County and Spencer Youth Center becomes coed the summer of 1983 Fire at Oak Ridge Group Home temporarily closes down the home 1984 Commissioner Ernest Pelegrine Act passes prohibiting status offenders Tennessee Correction Academy from being committed to DOC until after becomes operational at site of former third adjudication Highland Rim School for Girls Commissioner is authorized to contract 1985 Commissioner Stephen H. Norris with local governments when prisons become overcrowded Prison riots throughout system during the summer months causing millions of The TDOC Supervision and dollars in damage. Rehabilitation Fund is established General Assembly holds First 1980 Promulgated comprehensive set of Extraordinary Session on Corrections in policy and procedures which guide late 1985 resulting in significant management of TDOC changes through the Comprehensive Corrections Improvement Act of 1985: 1981 A volunteer prisoner work program for Select Oversight Committee on minimum risk prisoners is established Corrections is established; Community The County Correctional Incentive Act Corrections programs are initiated; passes with the Commissioner random drug testing of inmates begins; responsible for implementing Sentencing Commission is established. Implementation of the Plan of the 1980s 1987 Governor Ned R. McWherter

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1989 Commissioner W. Jeff Reynolds Tennessee Offender Management Information System (TOMIS) Regional concept is born; TDOC implemented facilities fall under one of three regions, East, Middle, or West; Administrators Northwest Correctional Center becomes are appointed for each region operational in May The Division of Youth Services is Tennessee State Penitentiary closes in abolished within DOC and the June Tennessee Department of Youth Development is created; all juvenile 1993 Department of Correction released from responsibility and functions are Grubbs suit; required to report on health transferred from DOC services for one year; permanent injunction entered prohibiting TDOC to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution house inmates in the old Tennessee becomes operational State Penitentiary Sentencing Reform Act of 1989 is 1994 Funding was approved to add 1,000 passed by the General Assembly beds to prison system State and Local Correction Reform Act The final two institutions passed their of 1989 provides mechanism for the American Correctional Association State to reimburse counties for housing accreditation audits; this made the felons department the first adult correctional system in the to have all Wayne County Boot Camp (Special of its programs nationally accredited Alternative Incarceration Unit) begins operation 1995 Governor 1990 West Tennessee High Security Facility Commissioner Donal Campbell becomes operational Major departmental reorganization; 1991 Northeast Correctional Center becomes regional concept was abolished operational 1996 Tennessee Correctional Work Center in 1992 Commissioner Christine J. Bradley Nashville opened (300 beds)

South Central Correctional Center Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary becomes operational under the celebrates 100 years management of Corrections Corporation of America in March. This facility is the Victims' Offender Information Caller test case for privatization of prison Emissary (VOICE) system goes on line operations in Tennessee DOC and other state departments Wayne County Boot Camp begins established a presence on the World accepting offenders up to 35 years of Wide Web age Construction began on a 1,536 medium Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs Facility security beds in Lauderdale County, becomes operational in June replacing adjacent to West Tennessee High DeBerry Correctional Institute Security Facility

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DeBerry Correcional Institute

Funding was approved for new prison enroll or complete a mental health ($54 million) program if convicted of certain violent crimes 10th Anniversary of Community Corrections Program Legislation passed in 1997 that established the Tennessee Internet 1997 Determinate Release legislation Crime Information Center (TCIC). The enacted; all one and two year felons to Center will provide online registries of be released to probation on their sex offenders, missing children, and out release eligibility date unless opposed -of-state parole and probation by sentencing court, etc. supervision Public Chapter 222 created a special Eight institutions were consolidated into technical violator unit for probation four correctional complexes, each offenders committed to TDOC to be operating under a single administrative placed, at the department's discretion, in structure an alternative sentencing program without age and program restriction Departmental management was restructured and a program planning Creation of Sex Offender Treatment section created Board and Provider Network; DNA testing of all sex offenders initiated as Educational programming in institutions required by legislation was restructured Public Chapter 457 required applicants TDOC entered into contract with for out-of-state probation or parole to Hardeman County to house 1,500 adult 14

male medium security offenders at the performed in 1996 Hardeman County Correctional Center (HCCC) managed by Corrections TDOC's drug and alcohol testing Corporation of America program was greatly expanded in response to federal and state efforts to Facility expansions at Wayne County combat drug abuse related crime Boot Camp, Tennessee Prison for Women, and DeBerry Special Needs The General Assembly approves a bill Facility were completed adding 648 new allowing members of a victim's beds immediate family to witness an execution in an area separate from Minimum security annex at Mark Luttrell other witnesses or through a closed Reception Center was converted from circuit television system male to female offenders; the male pre- release program was transferred to Cold The Governor signs into law legislation Creek Correctional Facility requiring any inmate who is less than 21 years of age to undergo HIV testing The Tennessee Correctional Work during classification with or without the Center was closed upon the opening of inmate's consent unless the inmate has beds at the Wayne County expansion been previously tested upon arrest for and completion of renovations at the certain sexual offenses Mark Luttrell annex 1998 Tennessee's state felon population Knoxville Community Service Center increases to more than 21,000, and Chattanooga Community Service including those housed in local jails.; Center began phasing down operations TDOC facilities hold more than 16,000 for early 1998 closure due to cost of operation and availability of more cost The department contracts with efficient minimum custody beds at other Hardeman County for an additional 512 TDOC institutions; KCSC's pre-release beds at the Hardeman County program was relocated to Brushy Correctional Facility Mountain Correctional Complex and The department begins a medical Northeast Correctional Complex copayment program requiring inmates Legislation was introduced during the to pay $3 for a self-initiated sick call visit 100th General Assembly in 1997 to to the health care staff allow expanded privatization of prison Legislation to expand privatization of operations; Legislation was deferred prison operations is withdrawn from until the following session consideration Over 1,925,400 hours of community The legislature establishes lethal service work were completed by injection as the method of execution for inmates, probationers, and community any person, who commits an offense on correction offenders at an estimated or after January 1, 1999, for which such savings to the public of $9,146,056.00; person is sentenced to the punishment figure represents an increase of over 17 of death. percent above community service work

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Public Chapter 1028 requires all defibrillators in all facilities for the persons convicted of any felony offense benefit of inmates, staff, and visitors; the on or after July 1, 1998, to provide a devices are used on two inmates in the biological specimen for DNA analysis first six months and credited with helping save their lives Legislation passed to transfer the duties and responsibilities relating to probation Community work crews continue to services and community grant programs provide valuable savings to local from the TDOC to the Board of Paroles; governments and non-profit The act also changes the name of the organizations; annually, more than Board of Paroles to the Board of 1,000 offenders provide an average of Probation and Parole nearly 1.4 million hours of labor for estimated savings of approximately 1999 TDOC recognized nationally for its cost seven million dollars to those groups savings measures in recycling; the department wins the Environmental The department is honored with its Protection Agency's National second Environmental Protection Partnership Award for its recycling Agency's National Energy Partnership efforts Award As a response to increasing gang Governor signs legislation making lethal activity within the prison population, the injection, rather than electrocution, the department opens the first Security standard method of execution for any Threat Group unit at Southeastern person sentenced to death; an inmate Tennessee State Regional Correctional under the sentence of death for an Facility offense committed prior to January 1, 1999, will be executed by lethal injection Tennessee's felon population tops unless the inmate waives his/her right to 22,000 be executed by that method; if waived, Mark Luttrell Reception Center in the method of execution would be by Memphis is fully converted to a female electrocution facility and renamed the Mark Luttrell Also becoming law is an act adding to Correctional Center the list of authorized witnesses for an Construction of 1,536 medium security execution; the additions may include beds adjacent to the West Tennessee one member of the defense counsel High Security Facility in Henning is chosen by the condemned person and completed as the Cold Creek the Attorney General and Reporter, or Correctional Facility (formerly Fort his or her designee. Pillow Prison and Farm) is closed; along The first execution of a with the minimum security annex at inmate in 40 years; Robert Glen Coe is Cold Creek, the three facilities are the first to be executed in Tennessee by combined under one administrative means of lethal injection for the structure and renamed the West aggravated kidnapping, aggravated Tennessee State Penitentiary rape, and murder of eight year old 2000s Carrie Ann Medlin 2000 The department installs external heart Tennessee's felon population levels off

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showing a percentage decline overall; Governor appoints former TDOC facilities hold approximately U.S. Attorney Quenton I. White as the 17,000 inmates with another 5,500 in new Commissioner of Correction local jails 2003 Phil Bredesen took office as The Tennessee Volunteer Resource Tennessee’s 48th Governor Board is created by the legislature; the new board expands the functions of the Commissioner appoints a full-time prior volunteer advisory board to include Victim's Notification Coordinator in an parolees as well as inmates and effort to work more diligently with those probationers directly impacted by crime 2001 An expansion phase is completed at the Community work crews pass the 10 Tennessee Prison for Women in million hour mark; the work crew Nashville increasing the facility to 775 program was re-organized in 1996; in beds October, crews had completed more than 10 million hours of community Director of Pre-Release and Transition service for city and county governments, Services appointed by Commissioner of as well as non-profits across the state, Correction to coordinate statewide pre- saving millions of taxpayer dollars release programming Plans are finalized to expand the Implementation of a statewide contract Morgan County Correctional Complex to provide health care for the State's adding 838 beds and nearly 138 new inmate population jobs; construction is expected to begin on the project in the fall of 2004; Completed double celling at South inmates from the century old Brushy Central Correctional Facility expanding Mountain Penitentiary will be transferred capacity by 170 beds to the new facility once it's complete 2002 Whiteville Correctional Facility opens in 2004 In September, the Middle Tennessee West Tennessee creating an additional Correctional Complex officially changed 1,536 medium security beds for housing its name to the Charles Bass male inmates; the facility is managed by Correctional Complex CCA Established and dedicated a permanent Tennessee's Felony Offender memorial at the Tennessee Correction Information Lookup (FOIL) was Academy to fallen correctional launched on October 31st. The new on- personnel line feature allows the public to search for an inmate's location, inmate number, In November, the Tennessee and early release date. Department of Correction held the inaugural Tennessee Criminal Justice State launches the new pre-release Summit program Tennessee Bridges, with a 1 million dollar federal grant awarded to February 2004 kicked off the Year of the the Board of Probation and Parole and Correctional Employee Campaign the Department of Correction

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Recreation of the Division of Drug dog teams were added to help Rehabilitative Services reduce the introduction of contraband into facilities 2005 On September 8, 2005, Governor Bredesen appointed George M. Little, 2006 Implemented two transition communities veteran correction administrator for the within the prisons which are designed to state, as the new Commissioner of the gradually prepare offenders to live Tennessee Department of Correction successfully in the free world Successfully delivered the department's Broke ground on the Morgan County first Victim Awareness training Correctional Complex expansion workshop Implemented a pilot program at Correctional Officer Wayne Morgan was Northeast Correctional Complex fatally wounded in inmates' escape from requiring all inmates who are expiring Roane County Courthouse their sentences to complete pre-release programming prior to release West Tennessee State Penitentiary collaborated with the University of June 28, Sedley Alley was put to death Tennessee at Martin to initiate a satellite by lethal injection for the crime of campus at the penitentiary training Murder 1; he had also received a center to provide continuing education sentence of 40 years for aggravated for staff and the community kidnapping and rape. Inmate work crews performed over Fully implemented a sexual predator 1,255,281 hours of community service and victim predictor evaluation process work for all inmates Officially opened a museum at the West Implemented a new Workplace Tennessee State Penitentiary Harrassment training program Opening of two transition centers in the Began implementing a smoke-free Nashville area; one for men and one for environment at our correctional facilities women Random employee drug testing began Due to the increased demand for prison as a measure to reduce the threat of beds and the need to limit excessive introduction of contraband into facilities costs, the TDOC began building a new and to create a safer workplace facility in Morgan County; this facility will replace the aging Brushy Mountain The average daily cost to house an Correctional Complex inmate was $58.91 or approximately $21,502.15 annually Public Chapter 168 required the department to report within 10 days the Creation of parole technical violator death of an inmate in a TDOC facility to center at Wayne County Boot Camp the state senator and state Criminal Justice Summits held representative representing the inmate based upon the inmate’s home address Implemented a smoke-free environment in the state prior to being placed in at each of the correctional facilities custody The General Assembly approved

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2005—Fallen Employee Memorial

legislation requiring the TDOC to award in facilities owned or operated by inmates with 60 days of sentence TDOC. reduction credits for successfully receiving a GED, high school diploma, Public Chapter 594 established the college degree, or a vocational Crooks with Guns law that created new education diploma after July 1, 2006; gun-related offenses and enhanced the offenders convicted of certain violent sentences for possession of a firearm offenses would not be eligible for the with the intent to go armed during the credits commission or attempt to commit certain offenses now defined as a 2007 The Tennessee Department of dangerous felony Correction’s Internal Affairs division began an intensive investigation in 2007 2008 Average daily cost to house in inmate to capture escaped inmates; Operation was $63.90 Clean Sweep launched in 2007 with Legislation passed prohibiting any sex TDOC agents tracking down dozens of offender in the custody of the TDOC, escapees, some had been missing for local government, or private contractor more than 25 years from being assigned to work release or Legislature amended the 2006 law to a work crew that permitted the offender provide retroactive sentence reduction to go out into the community with or credits for inmates who received their without supervision educational or vocational diplomas prior The Governor signed into law legislation to July 1, 2006 authorizing the commissioner to enter Effective July 1st, smoking is prohibited into agreements with local governments

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for the transfer of non-violent TDOC community; the department may contract inmates to local custody to participate in for 150 beds statewide; inmates within pre-release programs; inmates must be one year of release for parole recommended for parole or within one supervision or expiration of their year of sentence expiration for program sentence are eligible for placement; sex eligibility offenders will not be eligible Implemented the Groundbreaking ceremony was held for Elimination Act (PREA) by providing the new state-of-the-art Bledsoe County training to staff and enhancing the Correctional Complex in Pikeville; awareness on the help available to construction is expected to be completed inmates September 2012 2009 Completed the upgrade of the Morgan Beginning June 1st, the time for carrying County Correctional Complex to a state- out capital punishment sentences was of-the-art, maximum security prison moved from 1:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Completed the phase down and closing November 2nd, Governor of the Brushy Mountain Correctional was elected Complex 2011 Governor Haslam appointed Derrick D. General Assembly approved legislation Schofield as the Commissioner of the requiring the TDOC and the Board of Tennessee Department of Correction Probation and Parole to develop an individual treatment and supervision plan Closure of the Charles Bass Correctional for each offender using a validated Complex Annex was announced instrument to evaluate the individual In collaboration with several state risks and needs for each offender in departments and local law enforcement custody or under supervision to enhance agencies, TDOC launched Recovery successful re-entry into the community Courts and Veterans Treatment Courts 2010 Gayle Ray was appointed Commissioner Opened the Chattanooga Release of the TDOC effective January 1 by Center for women Governor Phil Bredesen 2012 Legislation was passed to transfer Governor Bredesen established the probation, parole supervision and autonomous Criminal Justice community corrections for adult offenders Coordinating Council via Executive from under the Board of Probation and Order February 10th; the 13-member Parole to TDOC council is charged with collaborating with and coordinating the services of state Effective July 1st, Adult Felony and local government agencies and non- Community Supervision transferred from governmental entities in the criminal the Board of Probation and Parole to the justice system to increase public safety Tennessee Department of Correction Legislation passed authorizing TDOC to Began training all staff in the delivery of enter into community-based contracts Customer Service with non-profit organizations for 2013 Bledsoe County Correctional Complex operation of transitional facilities to aid in began moving TDOC inmates into the the re-entry of offenders to the 20

new facility Impact Program Began a pilot program to implement a Opened a women’s annex at the Bledsoe department policy and standard for County Correctional Complex religious diets 2014 A Probation Technical Violators Unit was Created a Centralized Communications opened at the Turney Center Industrial Center Complex Annex in Wayne County Launched an automated system to TDOC launched the Driver’s License/ process inmate trust fund accounts and State ID program to provide offenders allow offenders to pay fines, fees and with a driver’s license or state ID upon restitutions release from prison Created a Sergeant’s Academy to TDOC Citizens’ Correctional Academy identify future leaders of TDOC was launched to educate the public about the agency’s mission, vision, and Began a Law Enforcement Command values College in partnership with Tennessee State University 2015 Began equipping Community Supervision probation and parole officers with Began a Youthful Offender Pilot Program vehicles to assist with home visits and to Opened the Morgan County Drug Court increase community presence Partnered with the Tennessee Housing The Charles Bass Correctional Complex Development Association (THDA) to was decommissioned implement housing initiatives 2016 Began operating the Johnson City Day Launched the Memphis Community Reporting Center, a one-year three

2009—Morgan County Correctional Complex

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2009—Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex Closes

2010—Bledsoe County Correctional Complex Groundbreaking Ceremony

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phase program, to serve as an Registry to track HCV positive patients alternative to incarceration Launched the Governor’s Volunteer Tony C. Parker was appointed Mentorship Initiative; the initiative Commissioner of the Tennessee connects degree-seeking offenders with Department of Correction community mentors to provide resources and support for success both while Public Safety Act was signed into law incarcerated and upon return to the Mark Luttrell Transition Center opened community as a facility for male residents to develop Expanded higher education opportunities the social skills, employment skills, and through a collaboration with the self-discipline necessary to successfully Tennessee Board of Regents and the reenter society Tennessee Higher Education Initiative to Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center provide Tennessee College of Applied opened to serve female offenders with Technology courses and associate gender-responsive treatment, degree programs to better prepare educational services, career offenders for successful reentry to the development, and reentry services community focused on changing criminal behavior Signed an agreement with Tennessee Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a State University allowing for the time-building medium security prison, expansion of the agricultural sciences became operational; the prison is owned program; the land-sharing agreement by Trousdale County, which contracts saves taxpayers $50,000 in livestock with a private operator operational costs 2017 Additional Day Reporting/Community Created a twenty-four bed Veterans Resource Centers opened in Jackson, Therapeutic Community at West Memphis, and Knoxville Tennessee State Penitentiary 2018 Additional Day Reporting/Community 2020 Created an Office of Inspector General Resource Centers were opened in to oversee compliance, contract Nashville/Madison and Murfreesboro administration, contract monitoring of privately managed facilities, vendor A Crisis Intervention Program (CIT) was contract monitoring, and risk implemented for staff assessment/mitigation 2019 Veteran Units were established at Tennessee Prison for Women was Bledsoe County Correctional Complex renamed the Debra K. Johnson and Turney Center Industrial Complex Rehabilitation Center in honor of Correctional Administrator Johnson who As a component of TDOC’s was killed in the line of duty on August 7, comprehensive opioid treatment 2019 program, a recovery focused living unit was established at Morgan County Correctional Complex

TDOC and its partners launched a comprehensive Hepatitis C Online

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