Prison oversight bills would pilot body-worn cameras for guards, create a Family Advisory Board and permit prisons to destroy drones carrying drugs.

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

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 ...

A Senate committee approved a proposal to give prison guards body cameras, despite opposition from the Tennessee Department ...

There are only a few ways to get behind the historic walls of the now-abandoned Tennessee State Prison on Bomar Boulevard in West Nashville. You could: A) work in Hollywood, as the remarkable fortress ...

In September, Brenda Kay Spitzbarth traveled more than two hours from her home in Maryville to Lebanon to attend a town hall event focused on prison reform in Tennessee. During the Q&A portion of the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WMC) - The Tennessee Department of Corrections will transition from physical mail to scanned, digitized personal mail for inmates at all TDOC facilities. This transition will begin ...

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 ...

Fayette County Fire and Shelby Co. Fire Departments battled several brush fires on Friday and Saturday, including one that burned around 108 acres, as smoke moved through the area Sunday, officials ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Federal Communications Commission recently took the first step in allowing state and local prisons to use technology that blocks cellphone signals in hopes of stopping ...