Leaders of a board created by state lawmakers in the wake of the kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher said Monday the disciplinary system it was created to oversee is broken and that they get little help from the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) to fix it.
Corrections were the focus of a state Senate hearing Monday. Senators heard from TDOC, the Tennessee District Attorneys Association, and the Inmate Disciplinary Oversight Board (IDOB).
That board was created by the Tennessee General Assembly in 2023 following the 2022 abduction and murder of Fletcher, a Memphis teacher. Her killer, Cleotha Abston, had been released in 2020 for a previous kidnapping conviction. He served 19 years of his 24-year sentence, receiving credits for good behavior…