A new program at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center — the first of its kind — is preparing women for success beyond incarceration.

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.

Vantell had been warden of Trousdale Turner since February 2023, the sixth to lead the troubled prison since it opened in 2016. Brian Todd, a spokesperson for private prison operator CoreCivic, said ...

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 ...

The West Tennessee State Penitentiary is located about 40 miles North of Memphis. Last month, a jury sentenced Boswell to life in prison with the possibility of parole. She was found guilty of all ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the prosecution stemmed from an investigation into a prison-based drug ring, led by Humberto Morales, a Tennessee state prisoner, that led to the culmination of a ...

Miles was walking on a recreation path at Mule Creek State Prison when he attacked incarcerated ... four years as a politics reporter at The Tennessee Star. He grew up in Rhode Island and ...

One woman removed her car keys from a hook on the wall and threw the keys behind ... You cross that state line from Tennessee thinking you can bring violence into Georgia, you’re gonna find ...

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

April 3 (UPI) --At least five have died in Tennessee and one each in Missouri ... At least one tornado touched down near Louisville, Ky., where a state of emergency has been declared.

At least seven people were killed in Tennessee ... made an extraordinary change to the state's sentencing law Thursday, striking down automatic, no-parole prison terms for 19-year-olds and ...