Tennessee COVID-19 Unified Command Group to Launch Mass Testing Strategy of State’s Prison Population and Staff
May 1, 2020
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s Unified Command Group (UCG) is announcing today a mass COVID-19 testing initiative will begin next week for all Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) staff and the inmates in their care.
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Tennessee Department of Correction Donates Protective Masks
April 21, 2020
Henning, TN – As the COVID-19 Coronavirus continues to affect the world and the communities we work and live in, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is doing its part to help combat this pandemic. The TDOC offender population at West Tennessee State Penitentiary (WTSP) has stepped up to manufacture and donate PPE’s across the state.
West Tennessee State Penitentiary inmates manufacture cloth face masks to help combat COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.
Henry County Operation Trick Or Treat Success
October 31, 2019
Paris, TN – While the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) Community Supervision division has been working all week conducting compliance checks of sex offenders across the state, the agency took time to join our local law enforcement partner for Operation Trick-or-Treat.
This multi-agency sex offender compliance check was launched on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019, as part of a joint effort between the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, Paris Police Department and Tennessee Department of Correction.
TDOC holds multi-agency Operation Trick or Treat in Henry County.
Halloween Doesn’t Have To Be Spooky
October 20, 2019
Nashville, TN – Every day across this great state, the staff of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) supervises more than 20-thousand inmates and nearly 80-thousand offenders on community supervision. Nearly 3,500 of those under community supervision are registered sex offenders.
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Governor Bill Haslam Recognizes Tennessee Veterans
November 12, 2018
Five Military Veteran Tennessee State Employees Honored for Exemplary Service
Nashville, TN -Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and First Lady Crissy Haslam joined Tennessee Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Many-Bears Grinder and Major General Terry “Max” Haston from the Tennessee Military Department to recognize five veteran state employees and more than 470,000 Tennessee veterans of all ages and eras.
The Governor’s Veterans Day event was held on the second floor of the State Capitol in downtown Nashville.
(Top: L to R) John Briggs, Don Coleman, Angelo Giansante, (Bot: L to R) William Houser, and Paul Nielsen.
Tennessee Department of Correction says Halloween Doesn’t Have To Be Spooky
October 28, 2018
Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC)
Nashville, TN – Every day across this great state, the staff of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) supervises more than 20-thousand incarcerated offenders and nearly 80-thousand offenders on community supervision.
Nearly 3,300 of those under community supervision are registered sex offenders.
The Tennessee Department of Correction is working to keep your children safe this Halloween season.
Tennessee Department of Health reports Tuberculosis Cases Hit Record Low in Tennessee
April 4, 2017
TDH, Tennessee Department of Correction Named TB Elimination Champions
Nashville, TN – There were 9,287 tuberculosis cases in the U.S. and 103 in Tennessee in 2016, the lowest numbers ever recorded.
Despite these encouraging figures, the Tennessee Department of Health reminds all Tennesseans TB is still here, but is treatable, curable and preventable.
‘’We are very pleased to see the number of TB cases decline in our state and around the nation, but this is a very common and very deadly disease worldwide and we know more must be done to constrain it,’’ said TDH Commissioner John Dreyzehner, MD, MPH.
In 2016, Tennessee had the lowest numbers of tuberculosis cases ever recorded.
Tennessee Department of Correction Launches “Operation Blackout”
October 25, 2015
Nashville, TN – As trick-or-treaters put the final touches on their costumes, the Tennessee Department of Correction is already taking additional measures to keep them safe this Halloween with the launch of Operation Blackout.
Operation Blackout began October 22nd, 2015 and is a yearly, massive statewide sweep to ensure registered sex offenders under TDOC supervision follow strict guidelines for the fall season and Halloween. Hundreds of teams of TDOC probation parole officers work with local law enforcement to saturate communities across the state, conducting random visits and compliance checks on sex offenders. [Read more]
Tennessee Department of Correction responses to Questions Regarding Offender Classification
October 2, 2015
Nashville, TN – Recent questions have been posed regarding the Tennessee Department of Correction’s classification of inmates.
Prior to Commissioner Schofield’s administration, some inmates were placed on the highest level of segregation for non-violent offenses. In 2012, the Department took a critical look at the administrative segregation population and found some significant disparities in the reason for their placement in maximum custody. [Read more]
TBI Case Yields Charges for West Tennessee Inmate in Suspicious Powder Hoax
June 3, 2015
Knoxville, TN – Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have obtained indictments for an inmate in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction in connection to a mailed threat targeting an Assistant District Attorney General.
On February 18th, TBI Agents began investigating an incident which occurred at the Sevierville office of District Attorney General James Dunn.
Earlier that day, an employee of the office opened a letter from inmate Mark Rhodes, which contained a suspicious white powder and threats targeting an Assistant District Attorney General who previously prosecuted a case involving Rhodes. [Read more]
