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 Innocence Project said Scott Minton was convicted despite 18 alibi witnesses and time-stamped receipts from multiple stores put him in a different county.

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, ...

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

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 ...

Scott Minton hung his head and cried Thursday morning just as he did on a Thursday in 1994 when he was found guilty of heinous crimes, but this time it was because he is finally a free man.

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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 ...