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Tennessee has 112 jails in 95 counties. The jail population in 2021 was 23,867. As of December 31, 2021, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Tennessee correctional authorities was 21,995 located in 10 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails.
Monthly reports (in PDF format) provide a last-day-of-the month snapshot of jail populations in Tennessee. Data on convicted felons and pre-trial detainees are shown in three ways: one-day end-of-the month counts, calendar year averages, and fiscal year averages.
Monthly felon population reports (in PDF format) provide statistics on felons in Tennessee who are incarcerated, on probation or on parole. They include information on admissions, releases, population projections, and population percentages of major offense groupings incarcerated in TDOC institutions as well as some information on local jail ...
collected state imprisonment counts reaching into December 2021, which are not fully compatible with BJS reports. See Jacob Kang-Brown, People in Prison in Winter 2021-22 (Vera Institute of Justice, 2022).
The incarceration numbers for the states in the chart below are for sentenced and unsentenced inmates in adult facilities in local jails and state prisons. Numbers for federal prisons are in the Federal line.
Line graph showing the number of people incarcerated in Tennessee's prisons and jails from 1978 to 2022.
PREPARED BY: Tennessee Department of Correction, Decision Support: Research & Planning 615.253.8122 SOURCE: This report reflects inmate population counts at each institution as reported via the TDOC Population Overview Report.
