By Jeremy Finley
WSMV
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two former top officials with the Tennessee Department of Correction said the agency is deleting cases of assaults in state prisons on staff and inmates in order to improve statistics.
The Channel 4 I-Team obtained records of assaults in a state prison that were later deleted, and an internal memo also indicated that cases of assaults should be deleted because reviews of those cases found them to be something other than assaults.
Jerry Lester, the former warden of West Tennessee State Penitentiary, said he was assaulted in his own prison, and there is no record of his assault.
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