Tennessee spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to house inmates, but prison education, which reduces recidivism, ...

The Tennessee Comptroller's audit released in December 2023 noted triple-digit turnover rates in state’s private facilities run by Brentwood-based CoreCivic and said prisons may have violated ...

A prison inmate uniform was found Tuesday inside a shed in this small Mid-South city but the Crockett County Sheriff's ...

Tennessee's prison population has increased in recent years, and experts say it’s likely due to tougher laws that keep people behind bars for longer. Following years of decline, the state's ...

the company’s largest and most dangerous prison in Tennessee. Trousdale frequently tops CoreCivic’s list of “high volume” facilities for sexual abuse and harassment allegations ...

Tennessee’s legislature put the ... CoreCivic, a publicly-traded company that runs four state prisons, has struggled to keep its facilities staffed at the level required by state contracts.

Tennessee’s Senate passed legislation Monday that would force the state’s private-prison operator to lower the inmate population in facilities with high death rates. Senators voted 30-0 in ...

Tennessee houses approximately 22,000 individuals in its prison system ... ensuring quality and equitable access across facilities. Evidence shows that states with centralized oversight provide ...