In the State of Tennessee, there has been a compelling argument in the Tennessee Legislator concerning oversight in the states correctional system (Ebert, 2016). The State of Tennessee removed government oversight from the state penitentiary system about six years before and allowed the Tennessee Department of Corrections the ability to operate without any outside type of interference from the State Legislator. This was a move that would prove to be a significant mistake in the minds of some people because of the larger amount of questions and concerns that developed from the treatment of offenders, the treatment and pay of staff members, and the overall security of the organization (Ebert, 2016).
The Tennessee Department of Corrections had started to look at the requirements of the systems offenders and the guidelines that they must follow while incarcerated in the system (Ebert, 2016). The evaluation leads to rules that required that offender movement be systematic meaning that they must always walk in a group, must walk on the left side of the sidewalk, must walk with their coat on, and must walk with our hand by their sides. There were a few other offender treatment issues that caused the questioning of dehumanizing the offenders housed in the correctional system in the State of Tennessee.
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The officers were facing a larger number of work hours that required them to work 16 hours shifts more than three times a week sometime five times a week because of the vacancies that had been a development of the overtime. There was also a pay issue that was placed on security officers for the department that was seen by most of these officers as being unfair to them and taking away from their pay because of the requirements of the new 28-day pay