Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

The suit claims the state's lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

The Tennessee Department of Correction issued a new execution protocol in late ... whose executions were pending in 2022 when Lee issued his temporary reprieve. Those inmates are Donald Middlebrooks, ...

Tennessee tied Arizona for states with the highest percentage of prisoners in private institutions. Here's how they compare to other states.

The Tennessee Department of Correction announced in December that ... Supreme Court ordered the execution of four death row inmates beginning in May. However, according to the suit, multiple ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has begun investigating the Hamblen County Jail over assault allegations.

The 80-year-old woman has maintained correspondence with nearly 30 individuals affected by incarceration since the 1990s.

The Tennessee Department of Correction has agreed to provide videophones, sign language interpreters and other accommodations to deaf people inside Tennessee prisons, settling a five-year-old lawsuit ...

A former Republican Tennessee lawmaker says President Donald Trump has pardoned him two weeks into his 21-month prison sentence for an illegal campaign finance scheme NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...