Coordinates: 35Â°27â²N 84Â°15â²W / 35.45Â°N 84.25Â°W / 35.45; -84.25. Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 44,519. Its county seat is Madisonville.
The story of âTurkey Peteâ. Ellen Baumler writes about Paul Eitner, a Montana State Prison inmate also known as âTurkey Pete.â.
When Montana became the forty-first state on November 8, 1889, the prison became Montana's responsibility. Finding it expensive to operate, the Board of Prison Commissioners contracted out the entire Prison operation in 1890.