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 +FacilityCountyLocationYear openedBledsoe County Correctional ComplexBledsoePikeville 2012Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs FacilityDavidsonNashville1992 Morgan County Correctional ComplexMorganWartburg1980Northeast Correctional ComplexJohnsonMountain City1991Carter County AnnexCarterRoan Mountain1986closed 2021Northwest Correctional ComplexLakeTiptonville1981site 21992site 1Riverbend Maximum Security InstitutionDavidsonNashville1989Turney Center Industrial ComplexHickmanOnly1971Turney Center AnnexWayneClifton1985West Tennessee State PenitentiaryLauderdaleHenning1990
Female facilities +FacilityCountyLocationYear openedMark H. Luttrell Correctional CenterShelbyMemphisOpened in 1999 as a female institutionConverted to male institution in 2016Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center DavidsonNashville1966Formerly known as the Tennessee Prison for WomenRenamed Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in 2020.Bledsoe County Correctional ComplexBledsoePikevilleHouses 300 female inmates in a separate unit originally built as a men’s annex.
Private facilities +FacilityOperated byCountyLocationYear openedSouth Central Correctional FacilityCorrections Corporation of AmericaWayneClifton1992Hardeman County Correctional CenterHardemanWhiteville1997Whiteville Correctional Facility2002Trousdale Turner Correctional CenterTrousdaleHartsville2016
Closed +FacilityCountyLocationYear openedYear closedTennessee State PenitentiaryDavidsonNashville18311992Cold Creek Correctional Facility LauderdaleHenning19381999Brushy Mountain Correctional ComplexMorganPetros18962009Charles Bass Correctional ComplexDavidsonNashville1946 (annex)20151979 (main facility)
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External links Official Website Tennessee Department of Corrections