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.

Recently, an ankle monitor began beeping in a Georgia church, local media reported, prompting a Honduran man seeking asylum in the U.S. to step outside, where immigration enforcement agents arrested ...

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

A city or county elected official could face up to six years in prison and a $3,000 fine under the bill that’s now awaiting Gov. Bill Lee’s signature. Nashville leaders called this bill a very ...

Senate Bill 6002 makes it a felony for local government officials to support "sanctuary" policies protecting immigrants in ...

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

Behind the locked gates of Richard L. Bean juvenile prison in Knoxville are shackled kids, no privacy and Bean’s favorite sadism: children in solitary confinement, often for days at a time.

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) have reintroduced the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, a bipartisan effort aimed at curbing rampant sexual harassment and assault of ...

I didn’t really realize I'd pled guilty until later. My attorney had told me that whatever the court asked me, to just answer, “Yes, sir." ...

Also, former state Sen. Brian Kelsey filed a motion to vacate his campaign finance scheme charges. Here's what to know this ...

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