:''not to be confused with the

South Central Correctional Center The South Central Correctional Center is a state prison for men located in Licking, Texas County, Missouri, owned and operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections The Missouri Department of Corrections is the state law enforcement agenc ...

, Missouri'' South Central Correctional Facility is a privately run, medium-security prison located in

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Wayne County, Tennessee Wayne County is a county located in south central Tennessee, along the Alabama border. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,021. Its county seat is Waynesboro. The county is named after General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, a prominent milita ...

. This prison is operated and administered by

CoreCivic CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the ...

(formerly Corrections Corporation of America) under contract to the

Tennessee Department of Correction The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is a United States Cabinet, Cabinet-level agency within the Tennessee state government responsible for the oversight of more than 20,000 convicted offenders in Tennessee's fourteen prisons, three of w ...

. As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four CoreCivic prisons. The state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, however, authorizes a single private prison for state inmates. As of 2016 Tennessee technically contracts directly with CoreCivic only for inmates held at South Central. For the three other facilities, the state circumvents its statute by contracting with the local county. In turn the county signs an agreement with CoreCivic.

Incidents at SCCF

In 1997, a prisoner sued two prison guards, alleging he had been subject to "very tight physical restraints." The suit went to the

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as ''Richardson v. McKnight.'' On September 1, 2013, inmate Gerald Ewing was killed in a fight after three days of lockdowns and sporadic, simultaneous fights at the facility. On March 28, 2014, inmate Jeffery Sills was brutally murdered by his cell mate, who had openly promised to do so.

References

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