A former Trousdale Turner correctional officer, prison chaplain, activist and incarcerated person weigh in on the causes of ...

A reformatory’s redevelopment into housing in Virginia has become a guiding example for cities across the United States. Read ...

Prosecutors say Matthew Vogel, who had violated parole on a drug charge, was killed by his cellmate one day before he was set ...

Saturday night, the Cumberland County Fire and Rescue Department observed 50 years during the annual awards banquet. Robert Eugene Presley Jr., 48, Dykes Lane, a former volunteer firefighter with the ...

Advertising The walls of prisons are thick, making them expensive to renovate. Or, as in the case of the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville — a castlelike structure built in 1898 by architect ...

Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey filed a motion to vacate his 21-month prison sentence for campaign finance violations, alleging coerced testimony. The Tennessee General Assembly is set to meet for a ...

Brian Kelsey files motion to vacate sentence, alleges prosecutorial misconduct Former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A bill filed in the Tennessee State House would make an assault on any public or private school ...

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 ...

Brandon Russell, a 29-year-old neo-Nazi leader from Orlando, Fla., faces up to 20 years in prison after a federal jury found ...

Just over four years ago on the campaign trail, Joe Biden made a bold pledge to voters that as president he would end the federal use of private prisons ... facility in Tennessee over allegations ...