NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Metro Nashville Government has filed motions in Circuit Court to order the Tennessee Department of Corrections to answer why the state has failed to comply with sentencing orders from the court to assume custody of inmates sentenced to TDOC’s custody, the city announced on behalf of the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office on Friday afternoon.
The city reports that the housing of these inmates has cost Nashville more than $5 million.
“Soon after I took office in 2023, Sheriff Hall began expressing his concerns about the severe overcrowding issues in his jails which both created management and financial burdens,” said Mayor Freddie O’Connell. “Metro is currently subsidizing the State by more than $5 million a year by housing inmates that the state should be housing. That is not acceptable or sustainable.”…