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Northwest Correctional Complex
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Northwest Correctional Complex is a state prison located in Lake County, Tennessee. Rated capacity: 2,436. Reported population: 2,343. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Northwest Correctional Complex is a state prison located in Tiptonville, Lake County, Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. The facility can hold 2,391 inmates at a range of security levels. It has the second largest capacity of any state prison in Tennessee after the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center. As of May 31, 2020, there were 1,958 in the facility.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
2,436
Current population
2,343
Occupancy
96%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
Tennessee
Security level
Medium
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.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- 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 peersOccupancythis: 96% · peers avg: 93% (+4%)
Capacity (beds)this: 2436 · peers avg: 547 (+345%)
Data 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 (Q26849196)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Northwest Correctional Complex. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/northwest-correctional-complex
Chicago
"Northwest Correctional Complex." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/northwest-correctional-complex.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-northwest-correctional-comp,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Northwest Correctional Complex},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/northwest-correctional-complex},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}