The Northwest Correctional Complex is a state prison located in Tiptonville, Lake County, Tennessee.

[3][4] It has the second largest capacity of any state prison in Tennessee after the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center.

In addition, inmates provide more than 100,000 hours of community service to state and local governments, and non-profit agencies annually.

The disturbances were attributed by The Tennessean to understaffing and a "severe manpower shortage" following Tennessee's decision to reconfigure correctional officers' schedules to save money on overtime.

[7] The Lake County Regional Correctional Facility (now called Site 2 within the complex) opened in Tiptonville in 1981, with a capacity of 500 inmates.