Lewis County Herald - Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898

Corrections, Courts, and Crimes

TRICOR moves to bring job training to those housed in county and city jails – Under a new 2020 law, the Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Correction (TRICOR) is now authorized to provide job training to individuals incarcerated in Tennessee’s county and city jails. TRICOR is an organization operating within the Tennessee Department of Correction that provides job training to inmates in an effort to make them workforce ready and reduce the state’s recidivism rate. TRICOR may enter into contractual agreements with count...