The Tennessee proposal still faces hurdles in the state House. President Donald Trump ... exonerated after spending more than a decade in prison for the 1989 rape and beating of a woman who ...

Tennessee’s Republican-backed ban on abortion has caused pregnant women to be denied care and even caused medical professionals to leave the state due to fear of prosecution. Senate Bill 1004, which ...

Tennessee is advancing a plan to let schools turn away students or charge their families tuition if they cannot prove their ...

Tennessee’s Senate passed legislation Monday that would force the state’s private-prison operator to lower the inmate population in facilities with high death rates. Senators voted 30-0 in ...

The Tennessee proposal still faces hurdles in the state House. President Donald Trump, who is moving aggressively to deport immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as well as some visa and green ...

Three years after curtailing an intensive probation program, the Department of Correction is reviving Community Corrections ...

Vanessa Murtaugh, ex-chair of Tennessee's Inmate Disciplinary Oversight Board, pleaded guilty to aggravated statutory rape, ...

The bill, which now heads to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk to be signed into law, ensures people with new evidence of innocence can ...

Davidson County jails are seeing record numbers of ICE detainer requests as the Trump administration ramps up deportations.

The legislation is designed to directly challenge the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe, in which the justices found it unconstitutional to deny children an education based on ...