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.

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.

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, ...

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

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

Six fishermen from Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram arrived here, after they were released from a prison in Sri Lanka, an official at the Chennai airport said on Thursday. Their release was facilitated by the ...

Police coerced a false confession from a man accused of a violent crime despite his time-stamped alibi, and he went to prison ...

Jackson, TN – A Dyersburg man was recently sentenced to prison in both federal and state courts for sexual abuse. Reagan ...