The board would hold public hearings and facilitate oversight over the system that has seen prolonged issues, contract ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction has asked for more than $1 million to implement drone detection technology. They said ...

Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn cameras for ...

Body-worn cameras are not used by guards inside Tennessee’s prisons but some made the case for them in a Tennessee Senate hearing Tuesday, though state corrections officials pushed back. The hearing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A correctional officer with the Tennessee Department of Correction has been killed on the job, allegedly stabbed to death by an ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — State lawmakers are suggesting a new idea aimed at increasing transparency inside one of Tennessee’s most troubled prisons. On Tuesday, the Tennessee Senate Corrections ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by the Nashville Banner. Sign up for their newsletter at nashvillebanner.com/newsletters. The Tennessee Department of Correction ...

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said Tuesday the county has spent $127 million housing state inmates, adding the state should compensate the county.