Abandoned prison in Tennessee - 3

Abandoned prison in Tennessee - 2

Abandoned prison in Tennessee - 1

Tennessee State Prison is a prison in Tennessee that has been closed since 1989. The prison's 800 cells opened to receive prisoners on February 12, 1898, and that day admitted 1,403 prisoners, creating immediate overcrowding. To a greater or lesser extent, overcrowding persisted throughout the next century. The original Tennessee State Penitentiary on Church Street was demolished later that year, and salvageable materials were used in the construction of outbuildings at the new facility, creating a physical link from 1930 to the present.

The Alcatraz Hotel

The Alcatraz Hotel in Kaiserslautern, Germany, was opened in a former prison. If you need some jailhouse feeling during your stay in hotel, you can live in a cell room with bars on the windows. The bathrooms are not separate from the rest of the rooms. Exactly as in a real jail cell. But you can walk in and out the hotel whenever you like. So you will never get the real jailhouse feeling.