The Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) is a prison in
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and ...
, operated by the
Tennessee Department of Correction
The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is a Cabinet-level agency within the Tennessee state government responsible for the oversight of more than 20,000 convicted offenders in Tennessee's fourteen prisons, three of which are privately man ...
. The prison opened in 1989 and replaced its 100-year-old neighbor, the
Tennessee State Penitentiary. RMSI, which is made up by 20 different buildings, sits on located off Cockrill Bend Boulevard in Nashville, TN. Riverbend's designated capacity is 714 offenders. Of that number, 480 are classified as high risk.
The prison's overall mission is to ensure the safety of the public, departmental employees and inmates by managing high-risk male offenders. Warden Mays oversees a staff of nearly 400 people, including administrative workers, correctional officers, unit managers and medical personnel.
Education programs at the prison include GED and Adult Basic Education. There are also vocational classes available for printing, commercial cleaning, industrial maintenance, cabinet making/
millwork and computer information systems. TRICOR, the prison industry, also manages a data entry plant and print shop at the prison. Inmates not involved in academic vocation, or industry programs are required to work in support service roles throughout the facility.
Male death row prisoners live at Riverbend.
[Death Row Facts]
" Tennessee Department of Correction
The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is a Cabinet-level agency within the Tennessee state government responsible for the oversight of more than 20,000 convicted offenders in Tennessee's fourteen prisons, three of which are privately man ...
. Retrieved on December 30, 2020. The State's
electric chair and
lethal injection
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death. The main application for this procedure is capital puni ...
gurney are located at Riverbend.
Notable prisoners
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Sedley Alley – rapist and murderer; executed by lethal injection June 28, 2006
* Cory Lamont Batey – rapist in
Vanderbilt rape case
* Letalvis Cobbins – convicted of the 2007
murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
*
Robert Glen Coe – child rapist and murderer; executed by lethal injection April 19, 2000
* Lemaricus Davidson – sentenced to death October 30, 2009 for the 2007 kidnapping, rape, torture and
murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
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Daryl Holton – child murderer; executed by electrocution September 12, 2007
*
Billy Ray Irick – child rapist and murderer; executed by lethal injection August 9, 2018
*
Bruce Mendenhall
Bruce D. Mendenhall (born April 14, 1951) is a convicted American murderer and serial killer. He was arrested in Tennessee in July 2007 – and found guilty in 2010 – for the June 26, 2007 murder of Sara Hulbert. The body was found by t ...
– murderer and suspected serial killer
* Emanuel Kidega Samson –
Burnette Chapel shooter
*
Paul Dennis Reid – murderer
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Nicholas Todd Sutton – serial killer; executed by electrocution February 20, 2020
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Philip Workman – murderer executed May 9, 2007
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Edmund Zagorski – murderer executed by electrocution November 1, 2018
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Gerald Lee Powers - murderer of Shannon Sanderson
References
External links
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution Tennessee Dept. of Corrections
Death Row Offenders Tennessee Dept. of Corrections
{{Execution sites in the United States
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Capital punishment in Tennessee
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Execution sites in the United States
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