In August 2024 the Department of Justice opened an investigation into Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, which CoreCivic opened in 2016 and has never operated within contract compliance. The staff turnover rate in 2023 was 188 percent. We can't request transfers to anywhere safer or closer to home, but whenever a South Central prisoner is unexpectedly rounded up in the middle of the night, they're being taken to Trousdale. Prompted by the violence at Trousdale, a bill currently advancing through the state Senate would require TDOC to "reduce the population at a private prison facility by 10 percent, if the death rate of inmates of the facility under contract is twice the death rate of an equivalent state-operated facility [and] continue the reduction in population until the conditions have improved." We would be redistributed among whatever facilities had the available bedspace. This is heartening, but its goal is to penalize CoreCivic, not protect people in custody.