If a vendor doesn’t provide good service when it supplies your business, you naturally will look elsewhere.
The state of Tennessee is not there yet, but it is evident from a recently released state audit that prison operator CoreCivic is not even providing adequate service at the troubled Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville.
The problems in the audit were so scathing that state lawmakers delayed until December reauthorizing the Tennessee Department of Correction.
Following the release of the audit, fingers were quickly pointed.
Democrats wanted to throw away the baby with the bathwater and not reauthorize the $1 billion Department of Correction. Some members of the legislature’s Government Operations Committee said the department hadn’t been tough enough on CoreCivic, previously called Corrections Corporation of America.