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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 ]
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 only federal prison in Tennessee is Federal Correctional Institution, Memphis in Shelby County, although there is a Residential Reentry Management operated by the Bureau of Prisons in Nashville. This list also does not include county jails located in the state of Tennessee. The Tennessee government agency responsible for state prisons is ...
Brushy Mountain State Prison, 2009. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, last named Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex, (or, unofficially, Brushy) was a maximum-security prison in the community of Petros in Morgan County, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. It was established in 1896 and operated until 2009.
CoreCivic, which runs four Tennessee prisons on an annual contract worth upwards of $200 million, has paid the state some $20 million in fines since 2020. The company has deep roots in Tennessee ...
Prison 1811 Lincoln County Museum & Old Jail: Wiscasset: Maine: United States Jail Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary: Petros: Tennessee: United States State Prison Abashiri Prison Museum: Abashiri: Hokkaido: Japan Prison The only prison museum in Japan. [1] Alcatraz Island: San Francisco Bay Area: California: United States Prison Ancienne ...
Women's prisons in Tennessee (1 P) Pages in category "Prisons in Tennessee" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The Fort Pillow Prison and Farm originally opened in December 1937. [3] As of July 13, 1998 the institution supported a 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) farming operation. [1] In 1999 the Cold Creek Correctional Facility closed. CCCF was replaced by a medium security complex built next to the West Tennessee High Security Facility (WTHSF).