A convicted child rapist is back behind bars in Sumner County after an alert member of the Portland Police Department recognized the man from high school.

She’ll be pumping gas or buying groceries, at a community or other sundry event, doing everyday things. A person in the near ...

Wellness is vital to avoid a return to prison, but they often reenter society without health insurance or medicine for ...

We have a follow up to the barricade situation in the 100 block of Lee Street in Jackson that we brought you Tuesday night.

Three "potentially dangerous" convicts have broken out of prison – triggering a massive police manhunt for the men. Daniel ...

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was the seventh person put to death in Florida this year, with an eighth scheduled for next month.

The Tennessee Department of Education will not be tracking whether applicants for the Education Freedom Scholarship Program ...

An inmate sexually assaulted a staff member at the Hardeman County Correctional Facility last week, according to CoreCivic, a ...

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 facilities.

Tennessee's Department of Correction has released a redacted version of its newly completed execution manual after initially refusing to do so The 44-page manual is noticeably shorter than the ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction wants to pay $6.8 million more to the state's private-prison operator next year despite the cloud of a federal civil rights probe and the company's ...