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

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

Former Tennessee Department of Correction employee Rustin Bowen is convicted of charges involving multiple child victims.

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, ...

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 ...

will spend 25 years in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for charges related to a series of carjackings and robberies he committed in Middle Tennessee in November of 2021 ...

These people and others with Tennessee ties were initially convicted of crimes and sentenced to as long as 90 months in ...

Games set in prisons can offer creepy, exciting, and memorable experiences. Prison Architect tasks players with running a prison in a highly detailed simulation. The Suffering and Batman ...

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But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison. The population here reflects the aging society outside, and the pervasive problem of loneliness that guards say is so ...

Investing in them is investing in safe jails,” Maginley-Liddie said. Correction Officer Christopher Curry, 40, said the business center gives him a place to check his email at the jail and the ...

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's 14-year jail sentence in a land corruption case is the latest in a series of ups and downs for the charismatic cricket star who has been in prison for ...