Conducting a Tennessee Inmate Search

Information on Tennessee inmates that are locked up in Tennessee prisons statewide is maintained and updated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. Under the state laws in Tennessee, the Tennessee Department of Correction has to provide information about offenders to the general public through its website. The information provided by the Department of Correction’s website deals with felony offenders in the State of Tennessee who have been or are still under its supervision or are placed under the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole’s custody.

Information on Tennessee inmates is submitted to the Department of Correction in Tennessee by law enforcement officials and justice agencies operating within the state. The information consists of offender details such as the present status of a particular offender, whether the offender is an inmate, out on parole, or on probation, and whether the offender is eligible for parole. While most of the inmate information is provided free of charge to the general public, the Department allows you to download the database consisting of all the inmate records in the state of Tennessee for a fee.

You can find out all the details about a particular Tennessee inmate and retrieve information from offender records, such as possibility of parole, length of sentence, crime committed, and previous crime history by contacting the Department Of Correction in Tennessee State at Rachel Jackson Building, Sixth Floor, 320 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0465. Phone (615)741-1000 Extension 8201/8005

For locating an inmate in Tennessee you can call (615)741-1000 Extension 4600. Once you contact the Tennessee Department of Correction you will be assisted by their personnel to locate any inmate that is locked up in one of Tennessee State’s correctional facilities or who is under its jurisdiction, and they also help you to obtain the inmate records that are not sealed or deemed confidential.

Tennessee Inmate Information

Prison Population

According to the information available with the Tennessee Department of Correction, presently there are 1,172 adult female inmates, 18,481 adult male inmates and 21 juvenile inmates that are locked up in the various prisons, statewide.   

Crime Profile

According to the prison statistics, homicide tops the list of crimes (24.51%), followed by sex crimes with 14.53% and drug related crimes (16.42%) for which offenders are doing time in the correctional facilities in Tennessee State.

Conducting a Search for Tennessee Inmates and Retrieving Inmate Records in Tennessee

Archived Records

To ask the Tennessee Department of Correction for archived inmate records, you need to submit your request through a written mail or fax the request to Tennessee Department of Correction, Operational Support Services, 4th Floor, Rachel Jackson Building, Nashville, Tennessee 37243 0465. Fax: (615) 532 1497

When you request for inmates record from the archives be sure to mention the type of information that you are looking for and also provide your address, telephone number and email along with your request so that the department can get back to you with the relevant information. Obtaining archived information will require a fee of 15 cents per page for processing and research work. You do not need to send this fee along with your request. The Operational Support Services will get back you with an estimated fee once they are done with the search. Once you make the necessary payment, you will receive the details through mail.

Information on the Sentence of the Tennessee Inmate

You can find details about a particular inmate’s sentence in Tennessee. To retrieve this information you need to specify details such as credits earned by the offender in prison, the eligibility of the release date of the offender, and the facility that he or she is incarcerated in. To help the Department of Corrections in Tennessee State narrow down the search and successfully provide the correct information about the offender, mention the details of the inmate such as the social security number, date of birth, full name if known, and the inmate number.

Send the request through mail or fax to the Tennessee Department of Correction, Sentence Information Services, 2nd Floor, Rachel Jackson Building, Nashville, Tennessee 37243 0465. Fax: (615) 532 1195

Tennessee Inmate Locator and Inmate Search

You can also search for Tennessee inmates by using the inmate locator search option. You can base your search on one of the three options that are available to you.  The three options are:

Option 1:  Allows you to base your search on first name, last name or the race of the inmate whose records you are trying to locate.

Option 2: This option allows you to conduct a search by using the TOMIS Identity of the Tennessee inmate. The TOMIS Identity or the Tennessee Offender Management Information System is the eight digit number which is assigned to every inmate in Tennessee by the Department of Correction.

Option 3: This allows you to use the State Identification Number to locate an inmate in Tennessee. The State ID Number or SID is allocated to each offender when his/ her fingerprints are confirmed by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

For more information on Tennessee Inmate search or to point out any inaccurate information about an inmate in Tennessee, you can contact the Tennessee Department of Correction in at: https://www.tennesseeanytime.org/foil/search.jsp or http://www.state.tn.us/correction/http://www.peoplepublicrecords.org/contact.html.