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Whiteville Correctional Facility

Whiteville Correctional Facility

Customer base: Tennessee Department of Correction - Facility Type: Medium Security, Owned since 1998
1440 Union Springs Road, P.O. Box 679, Whiteville, TN 38075
Phone: 731-254-9400 Fax: 731-254-9407

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Robert Adams Jr., Warden

Facility Leader: Robert Adams Jr., Warden

Robert Adams Jr. was named Warden at the Whiteville Correctional Facility in February 2025.  He had previously served as Warden at the Hardeman County Correctional Center. Warden Adams joined CoreCivic in 1992 as a correctional officer at Leavenworth Detention Center. He was promoted to assistant shift supervisor at Bay Correctional Facility, where he also served as a shift supervisor. Adams became assistant chief of security at Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, where he was promoted to chief of security. He later joined Whiteville Correctional Facility, where he was an administrative shift supervisor, assistant chief of security, chief of security, and assistant warden. He transferred to Hardeman County Correctional Center as assistant warden before being promoted to warden at Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility. He later served as assistant warden at Whiteville and Hardeman. Before joining CoreCivic, Adams served for six years in the U.S. Army.

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American Cancer Society; Relay for Life/Leadership Hardeman County Training/Carl Perkins Center for Child Abuse Prevention/HOSTS; Helping One Student to Succeed; Program at Whiteville Elementary School/Annual Fingerprint-Identification Cards for Parents; Hardeman County Board of Education Training (in-service); Hardeman County Foster Child Association

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Facility PREA Information

The following information is provided in accordance with PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003). Learn more

Compliance Manager: Shameka Bivens, Assistant Warden 

 

Third Party Reporting Method(s):

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Warden's Office: 731-254-9400

Call the CoreCivic Ethics and Compliance Hotline: 1-800-461-9330, or www.corecivic.com/ethicsline

Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) PREA Tip Line: 615-253-8178

 

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Warden's Office
Whiteville Correctional Facility
1440 Union Springs Road
P.O. Box 679 
Whiteville, TN 38075 

 

Tennessee Department of Corrections
320 Sixth Ave North,
Nashville, TN 37243-0465

 

Tennessee Department of Corrections PREA Policy (14-100): Download

 

PREA Audit Date: December 5-7, 2022

PREA Audit Report: Download

PREA Audit Date: April 17-19, 2017

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PREA Audit Date: March 16-18, 2015

PREA Audit Report: Download

PREA Audit Date: June 1-4, 2020

PREA Audit Report: Download

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Address: 5501 Virginia Way, Suite 110
Brentwood, TN 37027

Phone: 615-263-3000

Fax: 615-263-3140

Fax (for employment verification only): 615-242-5826

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