Anderson County TN Detention Facility

Anderson County TN Detention Facility basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 865-457-7100

This facility is for adult inmates.

The Anderson County TN Detention Facility is a medium-security detention center located at 308 Public Safety Ln Clinton, TN which is operated locally by the Anderson County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Anderson County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Clinton Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.

The Detention Facility serves Anderson County as well as the cities of Clinton, Oak Ridge, Rocky Top, Norris, and Oliver Springs. It also serves the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the Tennessee Valley Authority Police, and area park authorities. The facility can hold a total population of 565 inmates housed in seven units which are currently broken down as follows:

• Unit 7 (new edition 212 beds) is broken into four pods; medical, sex offenders, general population/medium security and lock-down/maximum security
• Unit 6 consists of inmate workers (27 beds)
• Unit 5 is comprised of minimum-security inmates (64 beds)
• Unit 4 is our main female pod (69 beds)
• Unit 3 is the female maximum security unit (16 beds +1 special needs cell)
• Unit 2 is a male lock-down over-flow pod (48 beds), and finally
• Unit 1 is male-only workhouse inmates (128 beds)
• There are also temporary holding cells in the booking section which are used for the processing and releasing of inmates

The facility is a direct supervision/indirect supervision facility where the deputies are located in the housing units with inmates and /or constant visual contact supplemented by routine walk-throughs by Deputies 24 hours a day. Each Deputy provides security against escape, an inmate on inmate violence and all other facility policies as well as enforcing state laws. Deputies also provide for the daily requirements of the inmates (meals, commissary, recreation time etc.).

The facility has 88 full-time Corrections Deputies with three contracted nurses who work a rotating 24 hour on-call schedule. There are three full-time maintenance engineers and two Kitchen Deputies on staff who plan and oversee the preparation of approximately 363,000 meals annually.

visitation Info

PRISON_NAME – Visitation at PRISON_ADDRESS, PRISON_CITY, PRISON_STATE_ABBR

• Monday 9am – 6pm
• Tuesday 9am – 6pm
• Wednesday 9am – 6pm
• Thursday 9am – 6pm
• Friday 9am – 6pm

All visits are non-contact and conducted through a glass partition. This facility may also have a video visitation option, please call PRISON_PHONE for more information and updates to the current rules and regulations.

Inmates are allowed 2 visitors per day