[1][2] As of 2016, Tennessee houses state inmates in four private prisons.

[4] As of 2016 Tennessee technically contracts directly with CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) for inmates held at South Central Correctional Facility.

For Whiteville and two others, the state circumvents the statute by contracting with the local county.

[5] Whiteville is the location of another prison, the Hardeman County Correctional Center, less than a mile south of Whiteville Correctional Facility on the same road.

It is also owned and operated by CoreCivic, opened in 1997, and also houses medium-security prisoners for the state.