Cold Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF) was a

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prison located in unincorporated Lauderdale County,

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, near Henning.Cold Creek Correctional Facility
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. February 3, 1999. Updated July 13, 1998. Retrieved on September 26, 2010. CCCC is now the West Tennessee State Penitentiary (WTSP) Site #1. The prison facility was previously named the West Tennessee High Security Facility and the Fort Pillow State Prison and Farm.TENNESSEE PRISON SYSTEM
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''. Retrieved on September 26, 2010. The Fort Pillow Prison and Farm originally opened in December 1937. As of July 13, 1998 the institution supported a farming operation. In 1999 the Cold Creek Correctional Facility closed. CCCF was replaced by a medium security complex built next to the West Tennessee High Security Facility (WTHSF). The two complexes and the CCCF minimum security annex were operationally combined and became the WTSP. Musician

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performed a concert at Cold Creek in June 1996 as part of a

parole Parole (also known as provisional release or supervised release) is a form of early release of a prison inmate where the prisoner agrees to abide by certain behavioral conditions, including checking-in with their designated parole officers, or ...

agreement after he was jailed for drug offenses the previous year. The concert was filmed as a MTV special, ''To Hell and Back'', which was later released on

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as part of a

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in July 2013.

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