(Jul. 3, 2022) — In early June, Tennessee inmate Jason Lamar White was transported from New Mexico to the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN in anticipation of a post-conviction petition hearing in the Shelby County Criminal Court scheduled for July 5.
In May 2019, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) sent White to New Mexico through an interstate compact arrangement to serve the 60-year sentence he was given by Judge J. Robert “Bobby” Carter for allegedly conspiring to distribute drugs in a “drug free zone” while serving a prison term, nearly completed, for an unrelated crime committed when he was 18. As the jurist in the new case, at the October 2017 sentencing, Carter meted out the harshest possible sentence of 60 years in prison without the possibility of parole, rendering White a prisoner for life.