{"id":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-069","kind":"context","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Tennessee Department of Correction; State level","state":"TN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","eco":"","issuer":"Tennessee Department of Correction (Commissioner Tony Parker)","authority":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-3-606; Policy 507.01","instrument":"TDOC release, \u0027TDOC Visitation Suspended Until Further Notice\u0027 (Dec. 1, 2020)","title":"Visitation suspended again at the four facilities that had resumed visits in late September and early October 2020; recital that TDOC first suspended visitation at all facilities in early March 2020","dateIssued":"2020-12-01","effective":"2020-12-01","end":"Until further notice (visitation remained suspended statewide into 2021)","startDate":"2020-12-01","endDate":"2021-03-31","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["GATH"],"addressees":["visitors","inmates at all TDOC facilities including privately operated (CoreCivic) facilities"],"clause":"Visitation is currently suspended at all Tennessee prisons across the state.... Due to an increase in active COVID-19 cases in the community, the Department of Correction has suspended visitation at four TDOC facilities until further notice. The Morgan County Correctional Complex, Bledsoe County Correctional Complex, Turney Center Industrial Complex, and Mark Luttrell Transition Center resumed visitation in late September and early October, but after a rise in COVID cases statewide... visitation is being suspended... TDOC first suspended visitation at all facilities in early March in order to protect the health and wellness of staff, inmates, and visitors.","enforcement":"Commissioner\u0027s authority (Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-3-606; Policy 507.01)","functions":["VS visitors","CB private prison operators (four CoreCivic facilities under TDOC contract)"],"notes":"Documents the March 2020 statewide suspension, the brief partial resumption (late Sept.-Oct. 2020) and the winter re-suspension: a nine-month suspension with a six-week interruption at four of fourteen facilities.","sourceUrl":"https://www.tn.gov/correction/news/2020/12/1/tdoc-visitation-suspended-until-further-notice.html","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201201222757/https://www.tn.gov/correction/news/2020/12/1/tdoc-visitation-suspended-until-further-notice.html","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":245724,"grade":"primary","character":"context","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","url":"/library/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-069","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-069","citation":"Tennessee Department of Correction (Commissioner Tony Parker), TDOC release, \u0027TDOC Visitation Suspended Until Further Notice\u0027 (Dec. 1, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-069)","stateName":"Tennessee","related":[]}