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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 ...
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.
Location of Bedford County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bedford County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bedford County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Location of Marion County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marion County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
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In the 1860s after the American Civil War, the Cincinnati Copperage Company established the area as a real estate operation, or "model town," which is how the community got its final name in 1887. [3] People who came to work for the furnaces in the area relocated to the area, many of whom became farmers, blacksmiths, or timber workers.
The sheriff said he was “grateful to the employees at the detention facility who took an inmate’s complaint seriously.”
Sterling Higgins, a 37-year-old Black man from Tennessee, died in March 2019 while being held in the Obion County Jail. An amended civil rights complaint, filed Friday with the U.S. District Court ...