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Rep. Mike Stewart, D-Nashville, suggested the Tennessee Department of Corrections be taken over by the federal government for poor performance.
The latest grim assessment from the court-appointed monitor, Steve Martin, came on the same day it emerged that the city spends more than $550,000 on average to house a single detainee in the jails for one year — nearly four times more than it cost in 2011.