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2. Tennessee State Prison - Wikipedia

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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 ]

3. List of Tennessee state prisons - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Tennessee Department of Correction - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Audit finds Tennessee prisons severely understaffed, officers ...

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   Tennessee prisons are severely understaffed, with a vacancy rate at one prison of 61%, leading to unsafe conditions for both inmates and guards, a state audit of the prison system found. The audit ...

6. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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   Brushy Mountain State Prison, 2009. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, last named Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex, (or, unofficially, Brushy) was a maximum-security prison in the community of Petros in Morgan County, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. It was established in 1896 and operated until 2009.

7. Court records detail years of understaffing at a Tennessee ...

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   Records filed in a lawsuit show that the Tennessee Department of Correction fined the company responsible for running one of the state’s most dangerous prisons millions of dollars as it ...