The Tennessee State Prison was forced to close in June 1992 ... FULL SERIES: Explore Tennessee's Abandoned Places During its 120-year history, the prison has hosted both the famous and the infamous.

RELATED: Abandoned Places: Tennessee State Prison The five-story cell blocks were designed to hold 800 inmates, but the corrections department wasted no time exceeding this limit by incarcerating ...

Left abandoned for several decades, the already decaying structure of the old Tennessee State Prison was further damaged during a deadly March 3, 2020, tornado that left piles of brick and rubble ...

A similar effect is felt at the historic Scott County Jail and Tennessee State Prison, where riots and an unsolved murder took place. While the old, abandoned Tennessee State Prison remains closed ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The state Department of Correction has released a new video featuring drone footage of the old Tennessee State Prison that was forced to close 24 years ago because of ...

The Justice Department on Tuesday launched a civil rights investigation into reports of rampant abuses at a privately operated state prison in Tennessee, including five stabbing incidents within ...

State audits ... that runs the prison, could have contributed to the dangerous environment at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, the largest correctional facility in Tennessee.