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8 paź 2017 · Tennessee’s first prison was used until 1858, when new construction was completed. In 1898 it was replaced by the “modern” Tennessee State Prison, located in the Cockrill Bend area of Davidson County.
TDOC HISTORICAL TIMELINE. 1700s. 1796 Tennessee admitted to the Union. 1799 Act passes providing the death penalty for horse stealing. 1800s. 1813 First act passes to raise money to build a central prison; no public support; concept fails.
8 paź 2017 · The Tennessee State Penitentiary had its share of problems. In 1902, seventeen prisoners blew out the end of one wing of the prison, killing one inmate and allowing the escape of two others who were never recaptured.
30 wrz 2005 · INTRODUCTION. This finding aid focuses on the records of the Tennessee penitentiary system that are contained within Record Group 25. These prison records span the years 1831 to 1980, with an addition of miscellaneous unit records from the Main Prison dated 1989.
Civil War and Reconstruction disrupted the state's program of remunerative prison operations. This period also witnessed a great increase in the number of Negro convicts. Faced with a large debt and insufficient revenues, Tennessee again sought a prison policy of economic self-sufficiency. For thirty years reformation was crowded into the ...
The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is a Cabinet-level agency within the Tennessee state government responsible for the oversight of more than 20,000 convicted offenders in Tennessee's fourteen prisons, three of which are privately managed by CoreCivic.
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.
