A Tennessee Senate panel wants officers at a privately-run prison rocked by a 2025 riot to wear body cameras despite ...

While early forms of for-profit prisons first began operating in the U.S. during the 19th century via prison labor and convict leasing, state, local and federal governments were the primary entities ...

FILE - This undated photo released by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Harold Nichols in Tennessee. (Tennessee Department of Corrections via the Chattanooga Free Press via AP, File) ...

A mother with a son in a West Tennessee prison got a phone call from a 901 area code she didn't recognize. She didn't know who from that area code would be calling her. She didn't answer. Then the ...

A coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media’s access ...

State lawmakers are suggesting a new idea aimed at increasing transparency inside one of Tennessee's most troubled prisons.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...