List of Tennessee state prisons

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.

The Tennessee government agency responsible for state prisons is the Tennessee Department of Correction.

Male facilities

Facility	County	Location	Year opened
Bledsoe County Correctional Complex	Bledsoe	Pikeville	2012
Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs Facility	Davidson	Nashville	1992 [1]
Morgan County Correctional Complex	Morgan	Wartburg	1980
Northeast Correctional Complex	Johnson	Mountain City	1991[2]
Carter County Annex	Carter	Roan Mountain	1986
			closed 2021
Northwest Correctional Complex	Lake	Tiptonville	1981[3]	site 2
			1992	site 1
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution	Davidson	Nashville	1989[4]
Turney Center Industrial Complex	Hickman	Only	1971[5]
Turney Center Annex	Wayne	Clifton	1985
West Tennessee State Penitentiary	Lauderdale	Henning	1990[6]

Female facilities

Facility	County	Location	Year opened
Mark H. Luttrell Correctional Center	Shelby	Memphis	opened in 1999 as a female institution	converted to male institution in 2016
Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center	Davidson	Nashville	1966	Formerly known as the Tennessee Prison For Women Renamed Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in 2020.
Bledsoe County Correctional Complex	Bledsoe	Pikeville		Houses 300 female inmates in a separate unit originally built as a men’s annex.

Private facilities

Facility	Operated by	County	Location	Year opened
South Central Correctional Facility	Corrections Corporation of America	Wayne	Clifton	1992[7]
Hardeman County Correctional Center		Hardeman	Whiteville	1997[8]
Whiteville Correctional Facility				2002[9]
Trousdale Turner Correctional Center		Trousdale	Hartsville	2016

Closed

Facility	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[13]
			1979 (main facility)

Notes

1. Opened near 7th Avenue and Broadway in 1831, moved to Church St. in 1858, final facility opened on Cockrill Bend Blvd. in 1898
2. TSP was closed by court order and replaced by Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in 1992.^[10][11]
3. An expansion of then West Tennessee High Security Facility allowed the main facilities to close and the minimum security annex to combine with WTHSF to form West Tennessee State Penitentiary.^[11]
4. Operational 1896-1972, 1976-2009
5. An expansion of Morgan County Correctional Complex allowed the 113-year-old facility to close.^[11][12]

External links

• Official Website Tennessee Department of Corrections