Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center

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The Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, formerly the Tennessee Prison for Women, is a Tennessee Department of Correction prison for women located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is named after Debra Johnson, a senior staff member at West Tennessee State Penitentiary, who was murdered by an absconding inmate in 2019. DJRC, the state's primary women's correctional facility, houses women of all custody levels. The prison serves as the state's new female prisoner intake and classification center, and it also houses all female death row inmates. There is currently only one female on death row in the state of Tennessee, Christa Pike. Her execution was scheduled for September 30 2026, however, the executive failed following 2 lethal injections. Following this, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee paused all executions for 2026. Women on death row are not housed in special death row units because few women go on death row. The prison first opened in 1966 and has a capacity of 817 inmates. The state classifies...

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