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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.
As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four private prisons. [18] The state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, however, authorizes one single private prison for state inmates. [19] As of 2016 Tennessee technically contracts directly with CoreCivic for inmates held at South Central Correctional Facility. For Trousdale and the two ...
The state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986, however, authorizes a single private prison for state inmates. [3] As of 2016 Tennessee technically contracts directly with CoreCivic only for inmates held at South Central. For the three other facilities, the state circumvents its statute by contracting with the local county.
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census , its population was 19,802. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Maynardville . [ 3 ]
According to the U.S. Department of Education, Tennessee, however, is among the 16 that do allow it although the Volunteer State is among five that ban the punishment for children with disabilities.
Inmate Name Register Number Status Details Michael Lee Cummins 00595912 / 3559843 Serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole. Perpetrator of the 2019 Sumner County murders in which he murdered 8 people, including his mother, father, and uncle. [2] [3] [4] A 9th victim, his grandmother, died of her injuries in 2022. [5]
It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. [2] The facility can hold 2,391 inmates at a range of security levels. [3] [4] It has the second largest capacity of any state prison in Tennessee after the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center. [3] As of May 31, 2020, there were 1,958 in the facility. [3]
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