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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 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 ...
Dec. 5—More than a dozen law enforcement agencies from the coast to the county line participated in the 24th iteration of Grays Harbor's Shop with a Cop event. Taking 56 kids to a breakfast ...
Average correctional officer vacancy rates for fiscal year 2023 were 30% for state-run facilities and 42% for CoreCivic facilities, which house over a third of Tennessee’s 19,000 prison inmates ...
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 25th annual Shop with a Cop Christmas recently took place, where 53 children picked out toys and electronics with the help of more than 25 officers. The event is sponsored by the Fraternal ...
In 2003, Judge Davenport issued a memo which was interpreted to order that, after a summons is issued, law enforcement officers must always physically arrest the child, and take them to the county's detention center—despite Tennessee state law which requires that, for many juvenile misdemeanor offenses, police officers must release children ...
The U.S. Department of Justice is launching a civil investigation into the conditions at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a notorious privately run prison plagued by understaffing, violence ...