TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on May 7, 2020

The Tennessee Department of Correction today announced that of the 586 inmates at the Bledsoe County Correctional Complex in Pikeville who tested positive for COVID-19, 580 have recovered, the Tennessean reports. Six positive cases remain, including two inmates who are hospitalized and four who are asymptomatic and in isolation. After mass testing in April, about 25% of Bledsoe inmates were positive for the virus, but a TDOC spokesperson claimed that 98% of those who tested positive were asymptomatic. Earlier this week, an inmate at the Trousdale Turner prison in Hartsville died after being diagnosed with COVID-19, but that inmate’s cause of death is still pending.