Following years of decline, the state's prison population jumped by 8% in 2022, and signs indicate it's still on the rise.
The state's private prisons see higher numbers of deaths and sexual assaults while providing less opportunity for support and education.
Dana Riner said her son developed schizophrenia while in isolation for two years at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center.
If he lives till the end of his sentence, the Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, man convicted of four federal felony counts of ...
The filings are the latest legal salvo by Kelsey to hold off a 21-month federal prison sentence for a campaign finance scheme ...
(AP) — Tennessee’s corrections chief said Wednesday that ... The commissioner’s comments are the first public estimate of ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Just days after Tennessee announced it had a new manual for executing death row inmates, the state’s top prison officials said they aren’t going to release the ...
Nikolaus Johnson, 46, has remained on death row since 2007 after a jury in Sullivan County convicted him of first-degree ...
Before decades of incarceration show you how the system really works, it makes sense to refuse a plea deal for a murder you ...
Robert Galler, 52, of Dyersburg, was sentenced in federal and state courts for sexual abuse involving minors, receiving a ...