Advocates filed a federal lawsuit to block a new Tennessee law that criminalizes harboring or providing shelter to undocumented immigrants days before the law takes effect.

It took a riot and multiple indictments, but the chorus of calls is growing to boot the state’s private-prison operator out of a Hartsville correctional center. Republican state Rep. Michael ...

Man pardoned for Jan. 6 gets life in prison for plotting to incite "civil war," attack FBI agents A Tennessee man pardoned by President Trump in January for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault ...

Tennessee Williams’ rarely produced “Not About Nightingales," comes to Nikos Stage July 17-Aug. 3 as part of Williamstown ...

A former prison guard has been sentenced to serve his own time behind bars nearly three years after he was caught smuggling drugs into the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, authorities announce… ...

The Supreme Court announced it will take up the case of a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A proposed new men’s prison in Nebraska drew a $313 million bid from Hausmann Construction of Lincoln, Nebraska, the state Department of Corrections said. The… ...

The Chickamauga Nation says a proposed new state prison in Franklin County could threaten culturally and historically significant land.

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Inmate Sanchez Jackson died at Macon State Prison last Wednesday, with Jackson's family telling 13WMAZ that he was stabbed to death.

“Carlos Aldridge has not served time in a Tennessee state prison,” stated Bradley Canada, public information officer for the Tennessee Department of Correction.