Ground broke on new housing units at the state prison in Deer Lodge as the Legislature sends proposals amounting to $436 ...

The Washington County Tennessee Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) said Tuesday that the county detention center’s most recent inspection by the state found zero ...

Kelsie Lynn Davis, 32, and Dylan Clay Davis, 31, were the only two passengers aboard the flight that went down in White ...

A federal jury found CoreCivic liable for failing to protect a former inmate and awarded the man $27.8 million, according to ...

A new round of heavy rain will target some of the same areas of the Tennessee, Ohio and middle Mississippi valleys that were swamped by flooding multiple times earlier in April, AccuWeather ...

The man awaiting trial for allegedly shooting an Elwood police officer has been accused of stabbing a prison guard.

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Knox County Schools released their budget proposal totaling $700.5 million in spending, around 3.1% more than last year. With an estimated 57,972 students, this equals ...

A 40-year-old inmate at Hardeman County Correctional Facility was stabbed 60 times in an open dayroom in a fatal attack.

Tennessee’s private prisons could see a reduction in their inmate populations if death rates in the facilities continue to ...

Despite a major increase in prison officer salaries, the Tennessee Department of Correction is hitting personnel shortages, forcing it to bring in a floating security crew” at state ...

An inmate was found "unresponsive" at the Shelby County Division of Corrections, commonly known as the Penal Farm, over the ...

Dubbed the “Women’s Safety and Protection Act," the bill would require private restroom, changing, and showering facilities to be segregated by biological sex ― as defined in the bill ― at all ...