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County Location Year opened Mark H. Luttrell Correctional Center Shelby: Memphis: 1976 as male institution [9] converted to female institution in 1999 Tennessee Prison for Women: Davidson: Nashville: 1966 [10] Bledsoe County Correctional Complex Bledsoe: Pikeville: Houses 300 female inmates in a separate unit originally built as a men’s annex.
The Old Bedford County Jail, sometimes known as the Rock House Jail, [2] is a 19th-century jail building located near the public square in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The old jail is a two-story building built in 1866-7 from solid hand-hewn limestone. [2] [3] [4] Goodspeed's 1887 History of Tennessee described it as "one of the handsomest and most ...
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 ...
Nested in the easternmost tip of Tennessee, Jonesborough—the oldest town in the state—is like a living museum. It boasts a postcard-worthy downtown with tons of idyllic, old buildings.
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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 ...
The sheriff said he was “grateful to the employees at the detention facility who took an inmate’s complaint seriously.”
The state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, however, authorizes one single private prison for state inmates. [9] As of 2016 Tennessee technically contracts directly with CoreCivic for inmates held at South Central Correctional Facility. For Trousdale and the two others, the state circumvents the statute by contracting with the local county.