NASHVILLE – Earlier today Governor Bill Haslam commuted the sentence of Cyntoia Denise Brown (#00410593), an inmate at Tennessee Prison for Women. Per the commutation, Brown will be released to parole supervision on August 7, 2019.
• Media wishing to be in the Tennessee Prison for Women (TPFW) parking lot can do so beginning at 11:30 a.m. until 6:15 p.m.
JACKSON – Tuesday night the Jackson Day Reporting Center (DRC) held its quarterly “Friends and Family” event. The program was designed to serve as an educational and informational event for the family and friends of those currently enrolled in the DRC.
ONLY – Providing incarcerated offenders with much needed education and career training is part of the broader Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) effort to increase public safety and reduce recidivism.
MEMPHIS – Last Friday the Mark Luttrell Transition Center (MLTC) welcomed State Representative Michael Curcio to the facility where he met with Commissioner Tony Parker and the leadership staff to learn more about the transition center and take a tour.
HENNING – Last Saturday, 41 residents of the Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center (WTRC) were given the opportunity to celebrate the holidays with their children and families at the annual Winter Wonderland event, hosted by Memphis-based Women Empowered to Be Self-Sufficient (WEBS).
WARTBURG – This past weekend the children of 15 offenders were afforded the opportunity to celebrate Christmas with their fathers at the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX).
WARTBURG – Staff from the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) spent the morning delivering gifts to local school children. Over 2,000 wrapped gifts were taken to the Morgan County School System’s Central Office to be given out to students who are enrolled in the Angel Tree program.
HENNING – All this week residents at the Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center (WTRC) in Henning, Tennessee, have been enjoying an event called Winter Wonderland hosted by a Memphis based volunteer organization called WEBS (Women Empowered to Become Self-Sufficient).
NASHVILLE – The death sentence of David Miller was carried out by means of electrocution on December 6, 2018 in accordance with the laws of the state of Tennessee.
NASHVILLE - Death row inmate David Miller has received his final meal.
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today made the following statement on death row inmate David Earl Miller: “After careful consideration of David Earl Miller’s clemency request, I am declining to intervene in this case.”
NASHVILLE – Death row inmate David Miller has selected a final meal. The meal will consist of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits and coffee.
NASHVILLE – In accordance with protocol, inmate David Miller was moved to death watch this morning shortly after midnight.
• Media wishing to be in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) parking lot to report on the December 6th execution of David Miller need to RSVP to the email address listed above by 12 p.m. CT on November 28, 2018. Please note: any names submitted before 11/20/18 have been discarded.