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

The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed.

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

Dana Riner said her son developed schizophrenia while in isolation for two years at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center.

Michael Tyler Roberts: Roberts, of Knoxville, was sentenced in December to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised ...

A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for stabbing a woman more than 60 times, stuffing her body in a suitcase, ...

A former middle school teacher and basketball coach in Kentucky has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for the ...

The bill seeks to criminalize local officials who support sanctuary policies for immigrants along with other measures in an ...

The Innocence Project said Scott Minton was convicted despite 18 alibi witnesses and time-stamped receipts from multiple ...

If he lives till the end of his sentence, the Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, man convicted of four federal felony counts of ...

Kelsey − a former lawyer − told a judge that he should have been released because he didn't fully understand the law.