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Facility County Location Year opened Year closed Tennessee State Penitentiary: Davidson: Nashville: 1831 [a] 1992 [b] Cold Creek Correctional Facility: Lauderdale: Henning: 1938 [c] 1999 Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex: Morgan: Petros: 1896 [d] 2009 [e] Charles Bass Correctional Complex: Davidson Nashville: 1946 (annex) 2015 [17] 1979 ...
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Tennessee State Prison is a former correctional facility located six miles west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee on Cockrill Bend. It opened in 1898 and has been closed since 1992 because of overcrowding concerns. [1] The facility was severely damaged by an EF3 tornado in the tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2020. [2]
The Department of Youth Services was created, with all juvenile responsibilities and functions transferred from the Department of Correction. In March 1992, the operation of the South Central Correctional Center was contracted to the Corrections Corporation of America, with the facility being a test case of privatization of prison operations ...
Davidson County prosecutors have dismissed a charge against a county correctional officer accused of punching and strangling an inmate at the Downtown Detention Center.
DJRC, the state's primary women's correctional facility, houses women of all custody levels. The prison serves as the state's new female prisoner intake and classification center, and it also houses all female death row inmates. [2] There is currently only one female on death row in the state of Tennessee, Christa Pike. Women on death row are ...
A Davidson County Sheriff's Office correctional officer is facing a felony assault charge after court records say he punched and strangled an inmate late last year. ... He was booked into the ...
In July 2017, federal lawsuits were brought against CoreCivic by inmates and employees at the Metro-Davidson county jail in Nashville, Tennessee, after the corporation had failed to adequately respond with referrals, diagnosis, medication, treatment, and prevention to a widespread, long-term scabies outbreak. [92]