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The original Miles School building was replaced by a newer building in the 1950s or 1960s, but the location continued to be the site of Union City's segregated black school. [2] The location continues to be used for education; [ 2 ] as of 2014 it is the site of the Miles Early Head Start center.
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 ]
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census , its population was 19,802. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Maynardville . [ 3 ]
Micheal R. Williams (born February 6, 1955, in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a Tennessee politician who formerly served in the Tennessee State Senate and was elected county mayor of Union County in August 2010.
It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. [2] The facility can hold 2,391 inmates at a range of security levels. [3] [4] It has the second largest capacity of any state prison in Tennessee after the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center. [3] As of May 31, 2020, there were 1,958 in the facility. [3]
As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four CoreCivic prisons. [2] The state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, however, authorizes a single private prison for state inmates. [3] As of 2016 Tennessee technically contracts directly with CoreCivic only for inmates held at South Central.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, Tennessee, however, is among the 16 that do allow it although the Volunteer State is among five that ban the punishment for children with disabilities.
Whiteville Correctional Facility is a privately operated prison for men located in Whiteville, Hardeman County, Tennessee. The facility opened in 2002 and has a capacity of 1536 medium-security inmates. [1] [2] As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four private prisons. [3]