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The present site of Paris was selected by five commissioners appointed to the task of choosing a county seat at the December 1822 session of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Henry County. Their choice was a 50-acre (20 ha) site, of which 37.5 acres (15.2 ha) were owned by Joseph Blythe and 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) owned by Peter Ruff; both ...
This is a list of state prisons in Tennessee. 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.
Henry County Courthouse, 26 November 2005. The Henry County Courthouse is located on court square in Paris, Henry County, Tennessee. The current building, which was completed in 1896, is Henry County's fourth courthouse.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Tennessee. According to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies , the state had 375 law enforcement agencies employing 15,976 sworn police officers, about 256 for each 100,000 residents.
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 ...
Henry County is a county located on the northwestern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and is considered part of West Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,199. [2] Its county seat is Paris. [3] The county is named for the Virginia orator and American Founding Father Patrick Henry. [4]
It then enters the city limits of Paris and intersects US 641/SR 69. Then, the route begins to gradually turn north. Then, the route begins to gradually turn north. The route comes to an intersection at US 79 on the east side of Paris and turns northeast along US 79 to an intersection where SR 218 turns north and becomes a curvy rural road and ...
Counties of Tennessee Location State of Tennessee Number 95 Populations 5,128 (Pickett) - 910,042 (Shelby) Areas 114 sq mi (300 km 2) (Trousdale) -755 sq mi (1,960 km 2) (Shelby) Government County government Subdivisions cities, towns, unincorporated communities, census designated place There are 95 counties in the U.S. State of Tennessee. As of 2023, Shelby County was both Tennessee's most ...