WARTBURG - The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is pleased to announce that one of its East Tennessee facilities recently passed their American Correctional Association (ACA) audit with high marks. Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) recently passed the facilities’ ACA audit thus completing a key step to earning reaccreditation.
UNION CITY – The Tennessee Department of Correction’s “Operation Clean Up” continued yesterday at the Union City Probation Parole field office.
MEMPHIS - A minimum custody offender, Terry Mason #143218, who absconded from Mark Luttrell Transition Center (MLTC) is back in Tennessee Department of Correction custody.
MURFREESBORO – In an effort to assist the offender population of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, the Murfreesboro Day Reporting and Community Resource Center (DRC/CRC) will be holding a career fair on Friday, October 26th.
• Media wishing to be in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) parking lot to report on the November 1, 2018 execution of Edmund Zagorski need to RSVP by 12 p.m. CT on October 26, 2018.
MEMPHIS – Late last night, offender Terry Mason #143218 absconded from the Mark Luttrell Transition Center (MLTC). Shortly before 10 last night, Correctional Officers determined that Mason had not returned from his place of employment.
KNOXVILLE – In an effort to assist the offender population in Knoxville and surrounding communities, the Knoxville Day Reporting and Community Resource Center (DRC/CRC) collaborated with Probation Parole Officers at the Tennessee Department of Correction’s (TDOC) Knoxville Field Office to hold a Career & Resource Expo.
MEMPHIS – Wednesday night the Memphis Day Reporting Center (DRC) held its Quarterly ‘Friends and Family’ event which was created and designed to serve as an educational and informational program for the family and friends of those currently enrolled in the DRC program regarding addiction and how they can provide support and assistance to those suffering from addiction.
KNOXVILLE – In an effort to assist the offender population in Knoxville and surrounding communities, the Knoxville Day Reporting and Community Resource Center (DRC/CRC) will be holding a Career & Resource Fair.
NASHVILLE – Due to the 10-day reprieve, inmate Edmund Zagorski will be moved from death watch back to death row within the next 24 hours.
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today made the following statement on death row inmate Edmund Zagorski: “I am granting to Edmund Zagorski a reprieve of 10 days from execution of the sentence of death imposed upon by him by a jury in 1984 which was scheduled to be carried out later today. I take seriously the responsibility imposed upon the Tennessee Department of Correction and me by law, and given the federal court’s decision to honor Zagorski’s last-minute decision to choose electrocution as the method of execution, this brief reprieve will give all involved the time necessary to carry out the sentence in an orderly and careful manner.”
NASHVILLE – Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski has decided to forgo a final meal.
NASHVILLE – In accordance with protocol, inmate Edmund G. Zagorski #102839 was moved to death watch this morning shortly after midnight.
NASHVILLE – Today the American Correctional Association (ACA) announced Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Tony Parker as President-Elect of this nearly 150 year old organization.
JOHNSON CITY – The Tennessee Department of Correction’s “Operation Clean Up” continued today at the Johnson City Probation and Parole field office. Officers and Special Agents with TDOC, along with officers from the Johnson City Police Department, conducted intensive vehicle searches in the parking lot of the field office. Today’s operation resulted in the search of over 50 vehicles.