United States · Tennessee · Pikeville
Bledsoe County Correctional Complex
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Bledsoe County Correctional Complex is a state prison located in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Rated capacity: 2,539. Reported population: 2,427. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Bledsoe County Correctional Complex is a state prison in Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, United States, owned and operated by the Tennessee Department of Corrections. The facility opened in 2012 as an intake and diagnostic facility. Bledsoe County houses a mix of inmate security levels. The only access to the $208 million complex of 23 buildings is an entry tunnel, allowing an uninterrupted perimeter fence. Individual pre-cast cells, of 80 square feet, were fully assembled off-site and then stacked by crane.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
2,539
Current population
2,427
Occupancy
96%
Year opened
2013
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2013
Region
Tennessee
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Natasha Cornett1979
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q26849242)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Bledsoe County Correctional Complex. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/bledsoe-county-correctional-complex
"Bledsoe County Correctional Complex." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/bledsoe-county-correctional-complex.
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