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BRUSHY MOUNTAIN STATE PRISON AT PETROS<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Taken\u00a0from the Morgan County News dated, April 26, 1962<\/p>\n Brushy Mountain Prison, ca. 1936\u00a0<\/span> ———————-<\/p>\n From the Knoxville News Sentinel: 6\/5\/2009 The last inmates were moved out of Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex The historical prison, which once housed James Earl Ray, was built in \u201c(The Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex) was outdated, inefficient Little said it would have cost $25 million to bring the facility up to An official closing ceremony for the prison will be held next Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the last of the first generation prisons left in Tennessee,\u201d BRUSHY MOUNTAIN STATE PRISON AT PETROS\u00a0 Taken\u00a0from the Morgan County News dated, April 26, 1962 Brushy Mountain Prison, ca. 1936\u00a0*\u00a0Note from Phyllis:\u00a0 Brushy Mountain Prison in the background.\u00a0\u00a0They being My Mother Mae Land Obed Land, my Dad and uncle Arlin and\u00a0 Aunt\u00a0Melba Mckeethan-Land. It is Brushy Mt. Prison.\u00a0It was against the law to take pictures… Continue reading Brushy Mountain Prison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,83,866],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-misc-records","category-towns-places","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Tenn.%201936.jpg\")
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Note from Phyllis:\u00a0 Brushy Mountain Prison in the background.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
They being My Mother Mae Land Obed Land, my Dad and uncle Arlin and\u00a0 Aunt\u00a0<\/span>
Melba Mckeethan-Land. It is Brushy Mt. Prison.\u00a0<\/span>
It was against the law to take pictures back then. 1936\u00a0<\/span>
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Photo submitted by Phyllis Land Hoover<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nLast of Brushy Mountain inmates moved to new facility
\nBy Lindsay Ziliak
\nOriginally published 05:59 p.m., June 4, 2009
\nUpdated 05:59 p.m., June 4, 2009<\/p>\n
\ntoday and moved to their new location in Morgan County.<\/p>\n
\n1896 but has been replaced with a new facility \u2014 the Morgan County
\nCorrectional Complex.<\/p>\n
\nand costly,\u201d said Tennessee Department of Corrections Commissioner
\nGeorge Little.<\/p>\n
\ndate.<\/p>\n
\nLittle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"