TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 15, 2018
Knoxnews, in partnership with The Marshall Project, published an investigation today detailing how individuals awaiting judgment in Tennessee are frequently shipped to state prison and kept in solitary confinement if a judge deems the local jail insufficient to handle their medical, mental or behavioral issues. One example found a nonviolent offender sent to solitary confinement because she was sick with a skin infection. The issue is allowed to continue thanks to a law from 1858 that has never been changed.