The state's private prisons see higher numbers of deaths and sexual assaults while providing less opportunity for support and ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

A former Trousdale Turner correctional officer, prison chaplain, activist and incarcerated person weigh in on the causes of ...

Prosecutors say Matthew Vogel, who had violated parole on a drug charge, was killed by his cellmate one day before he was set ...

Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders eight years earlier of newlyweds Adam Chrismer, 17, and Samantha ...

A spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction did not immediately ... have represented Mr. Willis we have become aware that inmates are struggling to receive a basic level of medical ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner who murdered a teen couple from Chickamauga, Georgia has declared a hunger strike, saying he ...

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office invited media to tour the Shelby County Jail. A CA reporter saw deteriorating conditions ...

An inmate at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center was rushed to the hospital following a fight Saturday night.

In recent decades, the fortunes of private prison companies have ... correctional facility in Tennessee over allegations that staffing shortages exposed inmates to violence and sexual assault.

Tennessee's prison population has increased in recent ... of June 2024 held 21,867 men and 2,473 women. About one-third of inmates are serving their time in one of the state’s four private ...

Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton Reformatory, a prison housing inmates from Washington ... Or, as in the case of the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville ...