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County Location Year opened Mark H. Luttrell Correctional Center Shelby: Memphis: 1976 as male institution [9] converted to female institution in 1999 Tennessee Prison for Women: Davidson: Nashville: 1966 [10] Bledsoe County Correctional Complex Bledsoe: Pikeville: Houses 300 female inmates in a separate unit originally built as a men’s annex.
The Chelan County Sheriff's Office began the investigation into Cowell's disappearance by using a helicopter to search the area near where her car was found. Search warrants were issued for Cowell's phone records and social media activity. At the request of the sheriff, the FBI was called in to assist with the investigation. [4]
In 2008, the county built a $23,300,000 expansion of the county jail—including a 43,000 sq ft (4,000 m 2) "juvenile detention center." [ 5 ] [ 17 ] County officials repeatedly compared the jail to a business—one commissioner saying he wished that the jail could be a "profit center". [ 18 ]
Pierce County public defender Kathryn Lyon compiled "The Wenatchee Report", [58] which "purport[ed] to show civil-rights violations involving children and families in Chelan and Douglas counties." [59] Lyon described the prosecutions as "a great example of a social phenomenon that we haven't seen since Salem or the McCarthy era". [13]
As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four private prisons, all run by Corrections Corporation of America. [7] According to the state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, which authorizes only one private prison for state inmates, [8] Tennessee contracts directly with CCA for inmates held at South Central Correctional Facility. For ...
The Dover Hotel was the site of the unconditional surrender of General Buckner to General Grant in 1862. Dover is a city in and the county seat of Stewart County, Tennessee, [5] 67 miles (108 km) west-northwest of Nashville on the Cumberland River. Fort Donelson National Cemetery is in Dover. The population was 1,442 at the 2000 census and the ...
Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) is a maximum security prison in unincorporated Morgan County, near Wartburg, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. It opened in 1980. An expansion completed in 2009 increased its capacity to 2,500 prisoners. The prison is accredited by the American Correctional Association. The ...
Operation Tennessee Waltz was a sting operation set up by federal and state law enforcement agents, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). The operation led to the arrest of seven Tennessee state lawmakers and two men identified as " bagmen " in the indictment on the morning of May 26 ...