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On October 31, 2002, Tennessee's Felony Offender Information Lookup was launched, allowing the public to search for an inmate's location, inmate number, and early release date. In 2002, the state also launched the "Tennessee Bridges" program, with the Department of Correction and the Board of Probation and Parole receiving a 1 million dollar ...
County Location Year opened Year closed Tennessee State Penitentiary: Davidson: Nashville: 1831 [a] 1992 [b] Cold Creek Correctional Facility: Lauderdale: Henning: 1938 [c] 1999 Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex: Morgan: Petros: 1896 [d] 2009 [e] Charles Bass Correctional Complex: Davidson Nashville: 1946 (annex) 2015 [17] 1979 (main facility)
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.
Davidson County prosecutors have dismissed a charge against a county correctional officer accused of punching and strangling an inmate at the Downtown Detention Center.
Local and state law enforcement are looking for a man who escaped from the Davidson Correctional Center in Lexington on Monday morning.
The Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, formerly the Tennessee Prison for Women, is a Tennessee Department of Correction prison for women located in Nashville, Tennessee. [ 2 ] DJRC, the state's primary women's correctional facility, houses women of all custody levels.
This was the "first contract ever to design, build, finance and operate a secure correctional facility." This is considered to have marked the beginning of the private prison industry. [ 14 ] CCA had to have the facilities ready by early January 1984, ninety days from the signing of the contract.
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 facility was severely damaged by an EF3 tornado in the tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2020. [2]