the barbed wire is apparent at the bottom of the frame and the sun ball itself is visible directly through the tower windows. Silhouette of Soviet soldier in the guard tower ... Exterior fencing ...

Picture a prison yard in a Hollywood blockbuster. There’s a fenced-in field where young men lift weights and play basketball on a hot summer day. Correctional officers look on from a guard tower ready ...

SB 468/HB 571, sponsored by Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, and Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Brentwood, has passed both the Senate ...

Jill Folts-Gaylord, a former New York state prison guard, shared her experience after being fired nearly a month ago. She was on a pre-approved vacation and medical leave during the strike.

Despite a major increase in prison officer salaries, the Tennessee Department of Correction is hitting personnel shortages, forcing it to bring in a “floating security crew” at state facilities.

Reggie Barlow has been hired as the new head football coach at Tennessee State University. Barlow replaces Eddie George, who resigned to take the head coaching job at Bowling Green State.

A female prison guard has been suspended for allegedly having an “inappropriate relationship” with an inmate at a scandal-plagued UK jail. Katerina Tatus was recently “marched to the gates ...

Multiple New York prison ... state of crisis caused by the walkout of thousands of prison personnel during an unauthorized 22-day strike that had forced the governor to call in the National Guard.

A Pittsburgh man already serving a life sentence for the 2014 murder of a man in Pittsburgh faces the death penalty in the murder of a guard at the state prison in Somerset. Paul J. Kendrick ...

As CoreCivic receives state funds on individual prisoner basis, reducing the private company's prison population would cut into its earnings. CoreCivic facilities in Tennessee have disproportionately ...