A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

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 ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

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

An inmate at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center was rushed to the hospital following a fight Saturday night.

Some federal employees at the Education Department have been placed on administrative leave for previously attending a diversity training. Several employees began receiving leave notices late ...

(The Center Square) – Sean Duffy, a former U.S. representative from Wisconsin, was sworn in as the 20th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation. In his new role, Duffy will oversee a $110 ...

But while the entire point of a receiver is to have a third party step in to reform city jails after years of the city failing to do so, the Adams administration is arguing Department of Correction ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A former Tennessee Department of Correction employee has been convicted of child rape and child abuse, aggravated sexual battery and the continuous sexual abuse of a child.

Tennessee's prison population has increased in recent years, and experts say it’s likely due to tougher laws that keep people behind bars for longer. Following years of decline, the state's ...

The state's private prisons see higher numbers of deaths and sexual assaults while providing less opportunity for support and ...

Tennessee, on Wednesday, officials said. The Metro Nashville Police Department said during a press conference that a 17-year-old African American male armed with a pistol fired multiple shots in ...