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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.
This is a list of state prisons in Tennessee. 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.
An expansion was later completed which increased its capacity to 2,500 prisoners. The prison is accredited by the American Correctional Association. The current warden is Mike Parris. [1] When the Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex closed in June 2009, its functions and most inmates and staff were transferred to the Morgan County Correctional ...
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary; I. Irving Block prison; T. Tennessee State Prison This page was last edited on 1 August 2016, at 13:49 (UTC). ...
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Tatterson said that she visited the prison in 2009 during a tour of East Coast abandoned places. She captured the prison in 20 photos. A description winds the reader through the history of the ...
State Penitentiary or State Pen may refer to one of various active and former penitentiaries within the United States: . Anamosa State Penitentiary in Anamosa, Iowa; Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County, Tennessee