A federal lawsuit challenging a gag order placed on a Nashville attorney regarding CoreCivic has been dismissed for lack of ...

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 ...

A cyberattack affected a few Tennessee school districts, Perdue Farms is closing up shop, and on lawmaker wants to rename BNA. Police say man arrested for peeping through woman's window had ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — After a more than two-year pause, death row executions in Tennessee could soon resume after the state’s prison system completed a revision of the lethal injection protocol.