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West Tennessee Detention Facility
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West Tennessee Detention Facility is a multi-jurisdictional facility located in Tipton County, Tennessee. Rated capacity: 600. Reported population: 47. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
600
Current population
47
Occupancy
8%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
Tennessee
Security level
—
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
- 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 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in United States.
Reports
- marshall-project29 Nov 2018
est City, Arkansas, where he is serving an 18-year sentence for one count of distribution of child pornography. Amanda Gilchrist, a spokesperson for CoreCivic, which operates the West Tennessee Detention Facility in Mason, called the author’s allegations about his medical treatment “patently false” in a statement to The Marshall Project. Gilchrist said that privacy laws bar CoreCivic “from
Data completeness
66%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
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). West Tennessee Detention Facility. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/west-tennessee-detention-facility
"West Tennessee Detention Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/west-tennessee-detention-facility.
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title = {West Tennessee Detention Facility},
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urldate = {2026-10-23}
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