The records and other documents concerning any inmate who is sentenced to the custody of the department of correction and is being housed in a prison or facility operated by a private prison contractor shall be public records to the same extent such records are public if an inmate is being housed in a department of correction facility.
Records relating to inmates in private facilities
Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-24-117, under Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-24-117