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  1. Tennessee State Prison is a former correctional facility located six miles west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee on Cockrill Bend. It opened in 1898 and has been closed since 1992 because of overcrowding concerns. The facility was severely damaged by an EF3 tornado in the tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2020.

  2. Oct 8, 2019 · Modeled after the much older Auburn Penitentiary in upstate New York, the Tennessee State Prison was largely constructed by convict labor and opened in 1898. Resembling a medieval castle, the ...

  3. Tennessee began leasing prisoners in 1866 and by 1891, the Tennessee Coal Mine in Anderson County adopted the practice. This fateful decision led to the Coal Creek War, where citizen-miners attacked and burned the state prison, stockades and mines, then loaded prisoners and guards alike onto a train headed out of town.

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  4. A 1,200-acre plot was selected along the Cockrill Bend of the Cumberland River northwest of Nashville. 1 The new 800-cell Tennessee State Penitentiary, patterned after the Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, opened on February 12, 1898.

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  5. Oct 8, 2017 · Work began in April 1830; on January 1, 1831, the first prisoners arrived. The penitentiary contained 200 prison cells, a storehouse, a hospital, and living quarters for the warden. In 1853, in response to serious overcrowding, the legislature approved the construction of thirty-two additional cells.

  6. Aug 20, 2020 · What was once a state-of-the-art facility was eventually forced to close in 1992 due to overcrowding, which a federal judge ruled unconstitutional. After its closure, the prison sat empty, but...

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  8. In June 1992, the Tennessee State Prison was closed and prohibited from housing prisoners ever again. However, the exterior would later be used for shots in the 1999 film, The Green Mile, as...

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