Turney Annex Release Paths
The Turney Center Industrial Complex Annex, often shortened to TCIX Annex, is part of TDOC. The main Turney Center complex is in Hickman County, while the annex is in Wayne County near Waynesboro. The annex houses minimum-custody men and includes the Special Alternative Incarceration program and a unit associated with probation and parole technical violators.
A person can leave the annex through several state-correctional paths. Successful completion of the qualifying boot-camp program can lead to release into community supervision. Another person may transfer to the main complex or a different TDOC site. A sentence event, parole action, or other approved release may create a different status. Each outcome requires its own record. Program entry or an expected completion date is not a completed release.
| Annex event | What it does not prove | Verification route |
|---|---|---|
| Program admission | Successful completion | TDOC program and movement record |
| Expected completion | Physical departure | FOIL plus actual release entry |
| Successful SAI completion | End of all supervision | FOIL and assigned field office |
| Transfer | Community release | New TDOC location |
| Parole grant | Release plan approval or exit date | Board notice, FOIL, and release record |
Confirm Turney Annex Releases
The correct online route is TDOC Felony Offender Information Lookup. FOIL covers current and former felony offenders in TDOC custody or supervision. It may show status such as incarcerated, parole, probation, or inactive, along with location, sentence, offense, hearing, photo, and release information. The Wayne County Sheriff's portal does not track annex releases.
- Search FOIL by the person's name or TOMIS number. Use the unique number when available.
- Compare identity, offenses, date information, and location. Distinguish the TCIX Annex from the main Turney complex.
- Read the displayed status and location together. An institutional site means TDOC custody continues.
- Transcribe the exact release, eligibility, expiration, or hearing labels. Do not convert an eligibility date into a promised exit.
- For a claimed program completion, seek the actual completion and movement or release record and then confirm the supervision office.
- When the online record is incomplete, use TDOC Records Management for archived sentence, movement, release, and discharge documents.
A successful program may lead to supervised release, but enrollment, eligibility, or a planned date does not establish that the person left the annex.
The Wayne County release search separates this TDOC route from county jail, federal, immigration, and court searches. That distinction prevents a Wayne jail no-result from being mistaken for a state-prison discharge.
Turney Annex Boot Camp Release
TDOC describes the Special Alternative Incarceration Program, or boot camp, as a disciplined and structured program at the Wayne County annex. It combines community service, life skills, and substance-use treatment. The state says people sentenced to TDOC for six years or less may be eligible. Eligibility remains conditional and individual.
TDOC further states that an offender is released to community supervision after successful completion. That is a locally distinct route from state custody into supervision. It does not mean the sentence vanishes, and it does not make every annex resident a boot-camp participant. The actual person-specific record must show completion and the next status.
The official TDOC community-supervision resource documents this Wayne County program and its release consequence. The state page below shows the program context reviewed for this facility.

The image reinforces the key sequence: completion is followed by community supervision, so the next check belongs in FOIL and the field-office directory rather than the county roster.
Note: Ask for the completed event and assigned supervision status, not a general statement that the person once qualified for annex programming.
Turney Annex Supervision Follow-Up
Wayne County does not have a separately listed TDOC field office. District 51 in Lawrenceburg serves Giles, Lawrence, and Wayne counties. Once FOIL shows parole, probation, or another supervised status tied to a Turney Annex release, the district is the relevant local TDOC route. It is unrelated to the Wayne County Jail booking desk.
TDOC District 51, Lawrenceburg1004 Buffalo Road
Lawrenceburg, TN 38464
Phone: 931-766-1420
Fax: 931-766-1446
Serves Giles, Lawrence, and Wayne counties
Parole means conditional community release from imprisonment before sentence expiration. Probation is a court-ordered community status and can follow split confinement. A technical violator is a person accused or found to have violated a supervision condition rather than necessarily committed a new offense. An absconder is an official supervision status, not a label to apply because a family member cannot find an address.
Privacy and operating rules can limit what District 51 staff disclose. FOIL, the judgment, supervision order, Board record, and an appropriate public-record request may be needed to reconcile a specific status. A stale address or missed personal contact is not proof of a violation.
Turney Annex Records and Contact
TDOC's current visitation directory lists the annex contact below. Visitation scheduling is not the same as a release-record request, but the current number can help confirm facility routing. The official research did not establish a separate public records office or a complete street address for the annex that should be repeated without current verification. Ask the contact to confirm the physical or mailing address before sending anything.
Turney Center Industrial Complex AnnexWaynesboro, Wayne County, Tennessee
Annex contact: 931-676-2973
Published contact hours: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Call to confirm address and purpose
For documentary proof, use the TDOC archived-record request or write to TDOC Records Management at the Rachel Jackson Building, 2nd Floor, 320 6th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243-0465. The records line is 615-253-8079.
Supply contact details, reason, the full name, TOMIS number, date of birth, Social Security number when available and appropriate, and a clear description. Ask for the annex admission and movement history, program completion record if relevant, actual release or transfer entry, supervision status, sentence data, and discharge record. Charges may follow an archive search. TDOC says not to prepay.
Turney Annex Date Meanings
A future date in FOIL must keep its agency label. Release eligibility concerns when consideration may be possible under a sentence rule. Sentence expiration is a different boundary. A projected calculation can change as credits, discipline, corrected judgments, consecutive sentences, parole action, detainers, new cases, and administrative recalculation change the record.
- Eligibility date
- A statutory consideration point, not an automatic release date.
- Actual release date
- The completed custody event recorded by the responsible agency.
- Sentence expiration
- The sentence boundary shown in TDOC's record.
- Community supervision
- Continued correctional oversight outside prison under defined terms.
- Transfer
- Movement to another custodian or facility, not freedom in the community.
For an annex boot-camp case, the useful chain is program completion, actual departure, FOIL status, assigned office, and the governing supervision record. If any step conflicts, record the source and time checked and ask TDOC to resolve the discrepancy.
Wayne County State-Prison Split
The annex and South Central Correctional Center place state-prison operations in the same county as the sheriff's jail. That unusual mix produces confusing search results. A person leaving the county jail after bond should be traced through sheriff and court records. A former annex prisoner belongs in TDOC FOIL and supervision records. Neither search substitutes for the other.
The main Turney Center complex is roughly an hour from the annex and is in Hickman County. A result that names the main complex can reflect a transfer or a different placement. Confirm the displayed location instead of treating the shared Turney name as one physical site.
Search engines also return Wayne County facilities in other states. Check Tennessee, TDOC, the TOMIS number, and the exact facility each time. This avoids calling an unrelated jail or relying on a record from another jurisdiction.
About Turney Center Annex
TDOC's fiscal-year 2024 annual report describes the Waynesboro annex as a minimum-custody site for men with specialized programming. The Special Alternative Incarceration unit and technical-violator unit connect the facility closely with the community-supervision system. That role shapes its release records.
The annex remains a state prison. It should not be described as a county jail, work-release center, or municipal holding site. TDOC controls custody, movement, release, and supervision records. The Sheriff's current-confinement and admission windows do not cover it.
Note: Verify the exact TCIX location, state status, completed release event, and any supervision before describing an annex departure as community release.