Tennessee’s Department of Correction is asking for nearly $7 million in public funds to go toward the state’s for-profit prisons — a fraction of the money the state has fined the private prison operator, CoreCivic, for not fulfilling all aspects of its contract. https://wpln.org/post/tn-republicans-want-a-new-public-prison-as-its-private-prison-asks-for-more-state-dollars/