Welcome
to the official website for the Tennessee Deartment of Correction. We hope that you find this site helpful and
easy to navigate.
The Tennessee Department
of Correction is recognized nationally for its sound management.
TDOC was one of the first departments in the country to become fully
accredited by the American Correctional Association, and it's a
tradition that continues. Only a handful of departments
nationwide are fully accredited.
There are more than 19,000
inmates in the state's 16 prisons.
Three of those are managed privately by Corrections
Corporation of America. For more basic
information on the Tennessee prison system, feel free to visit our Departmental
Overview page.
It's important to note
that juvenile offenders in Tennessee, with the exception of those who
are sentenced as adults, are supervised by the Department
of Children's Services. The Tennessee
Board of Probation and Parole oversees those inmates who have been
granted parole, as well as those who have been sentenced to probation
in Tennessee. The Department of Children's Services and the BOPP
function independently of the Department of Correction. For your
convenience, we have provided a link to those departments via this
website.
