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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 ]
Thomas W. Beasley (born 1943) is an American lawyer, political activist and businessman based in Tennessee. He was chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party from 1977 to 1981. In 1983, he was a co-founder of CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a private prison management company. He was its president and chief ...
Constructed 1833–1835, Kingston Penitentiary is the oldest standing prison dating to pre-confederation in Canada. After closing in 2013, the institution began operating tours seasonally from May–October, offering guided tours with online ticketing and Tour Guides as well as retired Correctional Staff on site to provide information to guests.
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 ...
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 ...
A Concert: Behind Prison Walls is the fifty-fourth overall album and a live album recorded by Johnny Cash at the Tennessee State Prison in 1974. The album features a total of seven performances by Cash with his backing band the Tennessee Three. It also features a total of nine performances by Linda Ronstadt, Roy Clark, and Foster Brooks.
The Coal Creek War was an early 1890s armed labor uprising in the southeastern United States that took place primarily in Anderson County, Tennessee.This labor conflict ignited during 1891 when coal mine owners in the Coal Creek watershed began to remove and replace their company-employed, private coal miners then on the payroll with convict laborers leased out by the Tennessee state prison ...
The Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) is a prison in Nashville, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. The prison opened in 1989 and replaced its 100-year-old neighbor, the Tennessee State Penitentiary.