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

Following years of decline, the state's prison population jumped by 8% in 2022, and signs indicate it's still on the rise.

A Davidson County woman convicted last October of embezzlement is back behind bars after violating her parole, the Davidson ...

Republican lawmakers' plan for immigration includes a new division within Tennessee's Department of Public Safety and ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The murder of a Honolulu teen in 1977 was solved after an arrest was made thousands of miles away. The ...

Arbey Lopez has been sentenced to 41 years with the Tennessee Department of Corrections after being found guilty on two counts of rape of a child, one count of aggravated sexual battery and one count ...

A man who was found guilty of multiple charges including child rape and incest in Johnson City was sentenced to 41 years in prison on Tuesday. A news release from ...

Dewayne “Bodine” Morgan, 73, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, transitioned from this life on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at CHI ...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney General told the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to stop using pentobarbital, the same drug Tennessee selected in its new execution protocol, because ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Clarksville woman has been convicted in a case of TennCare fraud surrounding the illicit sale ...

In a locked and alarm-equipped refrigerator at an Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation & Reentry facility in ...

One recall in October involved meat and poultry products that were potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.