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Investigation Finds Hardeman Inmate Murdered by 3 Other Inmates

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 1, 2022

After months of trying to get answers as to why his son died while in custody at the Hardeman County Correctional Facility, Eddie Tardy now knows. With the help of attorney Daniel Horwitz and questions from Tennessee Lookout, Tardy has learned that his 34-year-old son Laeddie Coleman was fatally stabbed by three inmates in a prison day room in September 2021. District Attorney General Mark Davidson said his office has received a file on the case and will present it to a grand jury in September. Coleman is at least the fifth inmate to be murdered at the Hardeman County facility since 2014, Tennessee Lookout reports. In 2020, the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office conducted an audit that found both CoreCivic, which operates the facility, and the Tennessee Department of Correction failed to properly document inmate deaths and identify the causes.