The Tennessee Supreme Court has set new execution dates for four inmates after a nearly three-year pause. The temporary ...

Local residents have voiced opposition for a number of reasons, including the shuttered prison’s history of violence and ...

Eventually social furloughs, available to only well-behaved inmates in minimum security, fell out of favor “because our directors all got very nervous because of the Willie Horton situation,” says ...

As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.