A troubled Tennessee correctional facility is getting new leadership after years of safety problems and multiple lawsuits over inmate care.
CoreCivic has brought in a veteran correctional leader with 30 years of experience to try to turn around Trousdale Turner Correctional Center. The facility has had riots, understaffing, and violence that’s generated about 90 new criminal cases a year for the local prosecutor.
The newly appointed Senior Warden Allen Beard Jr. is a 21-year Air Force veteran with experience at Tennessee, Maryland, and federal prisons. He will work alongside two new assistant wardens with a combined 50 years of correctional management experience…