For the fourth time in 13 months, Tennessee’s largest and most troubled prison, Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, has a new warden. After five months on the job, 30 year corrections veteran Allen Beard retired as senior warden on Jan. 30.
Beard was named warden in September, not long after inmates staged a riot, taking multiple prison guards hostage.
CoreCivic did not share the reason for the latest change in leadership and did not comment on the rapid turnover in leadership at Trousdale…