The Tennessee Prison for Women (TPFW), located
in Nashville, is the primary facility for female felons in the state.
TPFW has several missions. It is a reception and
classification center for female offenders entering into the TDOC
system. The prison also houses inmates in all custody levels,
including pre-release participants, work release inmates, and those
women sentence to death. The security designation is maximum.
TPFW offers academic courses that include
Adult Basic Education, GED and Special Education. Vocational classes include computer application and literacy, cosmetology, construction, culinary arts and greenhouse management.
TRICOR provides
job opportunities through the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment
Program (TCAP) test distribution center and the TennCare
hotline.
Inmates also have access to a full range of psychological and treatment programs which include substance abuse, sex offender treatment and aftercare, anger management, pre-release and career management success. TPFW offers a 64-bed intensive drug-alcohol treatment program called the Correctional Recovery Academy, which is operated by Spectrum Health Systems. TPFW also operates a 40-bed job readiness/life skills therapeutic transitional program called EXODUS.
TPFW offers a weekend child visitation program which has received national
recognition. The program includes grandmothers as well as
mothers. TPFW has a dog
training program called PPAWS or Prison
Puppies
Achieving Worthy Service, that is designed to help rehabilitate
inmates while teaching them a marketable job skill.
DIRECTIONS:
Travel I-40 to White Bridge Road, Exit #204. Turn right, if coming
East or turn left, if coming from West. Go thru 2 traffic
lights. Go approximately 5 miles to Highway 12 (Ashland City
Highway). Turn right. Go approximately .5 miles.
Turn right (you will see the green signs.) Institution is at the
end of this road (approximately 1 mile.)
Alternate Route from I-40 West: Travel I-40 West to
Briley Parkway/TN 155 N. Take Exit 25 at County Hospital
Road. Keep right at the fork to go onto County Hospital
Road. Turn left onto Stewarts Lane.
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