A Tennessee judge on Friday ordered prison officials to provide better care for a death row inmate being held in restraints after he cut off his penis.
A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide better care for a death row inmate who was restrained after he cut off his penis. An attorney for a Henry
Editor’s note: This story was produced in collaboration with the Idaho Capital Sun and benefited from public records grant funding through The Gumshoe Group investigative journalism initiative. BOISE (Idaho Statesman) – Last June, two days after a condemned man outlived his scheduled execution date, he made a macabre appeal to the agents tasked with guiding […]
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Inmates Are a High Risk for COVID Transmission, but a Low Priority for Tennessee A state panel won t prioritize prisoners for vaccination, fearing a âpublic relations nightmare Tweet
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, which houses Tennesseeâs death rowPhoto: Daniel Meigs
Associated Press reporters Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise were able to get a hold of documents showing that the state panel that decided what order Tennesseans get vaccinated in âacknowledged that prison inmates in the state were high-risk, but concluded that prioritizing them for inoculation could be a âpublic relations nightmare.ââ And so inmates were ranked last for vaccines.
If weâre ranking nightmares, being trapped in a small cell in a long row of small cells stuffed with people while a deadly virus with as-yet-unknown long-term health implications passes through the prison seems like it would be way higher up on the list than âre