West Tennessee Detention Center allows contact visits, and the setup is more personal than what you find at facilities that use glass partitions or video terminals.
Visitation takes place in a room with tables and chairs, with a guard stationed on a platform overseeing the area. Vending machines are available so you can grab something to eat or drink during the visit. The atmosphere is supervised but not oppressive for a detention facility.
Physical contact is permitted within limits. You can hug and kiss your person when you arrive and again when the visit ends. Holding hands across or under the table during the visit is generally allowed. Anything beyond that draws attention from the guard on duty.
Plan on up to two hours for a standard visit. If the facility is not running at capacity that day, visits sometimes run longer without issue.
On what to expect for yourself going in, the pat-down process at West Tennessee is thorough and intrusive. Staff are specifically looking for people attempting to smuggle contraband in to inmates, and they take that screening seriously. Dress simply, avoid underwire, wear minimal jewelry, and do not bring anything into the facility that is not necessary. Leave everything you do not need in the car.
Your inmate will go through a strip search when they return to their pod after the visit. That is standard procedure at most detention facilities and happens regardless of how the visit went. Knowing that ahead of time helps both of you treat the goodbye at the end of the visit with appropriate normalcy rather than letting it cast a shadow over the time you had together.