TheRiverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) is a prison inNashville, Tennessee, United States, operated by theTennessee Department of Correction. The prison opened in 1989 and replaced its 100-year-old neighbor, theTennessee State Penitentiary. RMSI, which is made up by 20 different buildings, sits on 132 acres (0.53 km2) located off Cockrill Bend Boulevard in Nashville. Riverbend's designated capacity is 786 offenders. Of that number, 480 are classified as high risk.
The prison's overall mission is to ensure the safety of the public, departmental employees and inmates by managing high-risk male offenders. The Warden oversees a staff of nearly 400 people, including administrative workers, correctional officers, unit managers and medical personnel.
Education programs at the prison include GED and Adult Basic Education. There are also vocational classes available for printing, commercial cleaning, industrial maintenance, cabinet making/millwork and computer information systems. TRICOR, the prison industry, also manages a data entry plant and print shop at the prison. Inmates not involved in academic vocation, or industry programs are required to work in support service roles throughout the facility.
Michael Lee Cummins – perpetrator of the2019 Sumner County murders in which he murdered 8 people, including his mother, father, and uncle.[3][4][5] A 9th victim, his grandmother, died of her injuries in 2022.[6] Serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole
George Hyatte – convicted of the murder of Tennessee corrections transport officer Wayne "Cotton" Morgan after he pleaded guilty to a robbery charge and his wife, Jennifer Forsyth Hyatte, fatally shot the corrections officer at the Kingston Courthouse in Roane County, Tennessee on August 9, 2005. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on March 9, 2009
Paul Dennis Reid – serial killer sentenced to death for seven murders during three fast-food restaurantrobberies. Reid died on November 1, 2013 due to pneumonia, heart failure, and upper respiratory issues.[7]
Philip Workman – murderer; executed by lethal injection on May 9, 2007
Daryl Holton – child murderer; executed by electrocution on September 12, 2007
Cecil Johnson Jr. murderer; executed by lethal injection on December 2, 2009
Billy Ray Irick – child rapist and murderer; executed by lethal injection on August 9, 2018
Edmund Zagorski – murderer; executed by electrocution on November 1, 2018
David Earl Miller – convicted of the 1981murder of Lee Standifer; executed by electrocution on December 6, 2018. Longest-serving death row inmate in Tennessee at the time of his execution
