Department of Correction Commissioner Tony Parker, seen here at a 2017 legislative hearing, said Monday he has asked the department's chief legal counsel to review the state's policy on safekeeping. (Photo: Shelley Mays/The Tennessean)The head of Tennessee's prison system told lawmakers Monday he's asked for a review of the state Department of Correction's policy on safekeeping, a program that allows jails to send Tennesseans not convicted of crimes to state prisons where they are kept in solitary confinement.
Department of Correction Commissioner Tony Parker told the Senate State and Local Government Corrections Subcommittee he asked the department's chief general counsel to review the safekeeping policy "to try and find ways to be as less restrictive as we can.
"We have made significant efforts to lesson the burden of someone being in a restricted housing area," Parker said.
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