United States · Tennessee · Wartburg
Morgan County Correctional Complex
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Morgan County Correctional Complex is a state prison located in Morgan County, Tennessee. Rated capacity: 2,230. Reported population: 2,149. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) is a maximum security prison in unincorporated Morgan County, near Wartburg, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. It opened in 1980. An expansion was later completed which increased its capacity to 2,128 prisoners. The prison is accredited by the American Correctional Association. The current warden is Shawn Phillips.
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Capacity
2,230
Current population
2,149
Occupancy
96%
Year opened
1980
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1980
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
- Travis Reinking1989 · mass murderer
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 (Q6911620)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Morgan County Correctional Complex. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/morgan-county-correctional-complex
"Morgan County Correctional Complex." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/morgan-county-correctional-complex.
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