A closed prison in Tennessee has been approved as the latest state facility to be repurposed into a detention facility for illegal immigrants who have been arrested by Immigration and Customs ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his ...

Tennessee game wardens busted a serial poacher who’d chosen an odd place to target trophy bucks: the West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Lauderdale County. Officials say the 53-year-old poacher ...

MASON, Tenn. (AP) — Officials in a rural Tennessee town voted Tuesday to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite ...

SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. - A new study shows Tennessee prisoners have some of the shortest sentence terms in the nation. It's a fact that's alarming some taxpayers and prosecutors. Commit a crime in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Families who have lost loved ones in Tennessee prisons gathered this week in Lebanon to share their stories and demand reform by state lawmakers, hoping their voices ...