Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Senate committee on Tuesday approved a $7 million funding boost for private prison operator CoreCivic amid an ongoing ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is testing new technology that could change how prisons are monitored and secured across the state. State leaders recently got a ...

There are only a few ways to get behind the historic walls of the now-abandoned Tennessee State Prison on Bomar Boulevard in West Nashville. You could: A) work in Hollywood, as the remarkable fortress ...

When Moniqueka Gold’s phone rang in the early hours on Jan. 31 last year, she knew something was wrong. For months, she had been grappling with a living nightmare. Now, a new one was about to begin.

Matthew Vogel was finishing up a six-month stint at the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, for a parole violation when he was allegedly beaten to death by a cellmate who was ...

Senators defied objections from Tennessee’s Correction Department and gave unanimous approval to a bill equipping prison guards in Tennessee’s largest, most notoriously violent prison with body-worn ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Department of Correction joined the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's jail enforcement model this week, which helps the federal agency in its enforcement of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Tennessee lawmakers recently questioned whether state prisons and jails are following rules limiting the use of taxpayer dollars for gender-affirming care. Under a state law ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The attorney for murder suspect Austin Drummond is fighting a Lake County judge’s order to move him to a state prison while he awaits trial. Drummond’s attorney, Drew Farmer, filed a ...

In September, Brenda Kay Spitzbarth traveled more than two hours from her home in Maryville to Lebanon to attend a town hall event focused on prison reform in Tennessee. During the Q&A portion of the ...