Officials in a rural Tennessee town approved turning a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a ...

A closed prison in Tennessee has been approved as the latest state facility to be repurposed into a detention facility for ...

DYERSBURG, Tenn. - Six inmates were hospitalized after a fight Tuesday at a state prison in West Tennessee, officials said.

An "inmate-related incident" led to a large police presence Tuesday morning at a Mid-South healthcare facility, police said.

Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate 's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ruled Friday. The ...

A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee Aug. 5.

What are the issues surrounding private prisons in Tennessee? On this episode of MorningLine, host Nick Beres sits down with Tim Leeper, Founder of Kylan's Light, a non-profit organization ...

The Tennessee Department of Corrections has filed an appeal in Byron Black’s case. Earlier in July, a judge ordered that Black’s implanted defibrillator be deactivated before his execution.

A man who fatally shot a woman he was living with outside her Westwood home and then drove her body to Tennessee has pleaded guilty to charges including manslaughter.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia back in Nashville federal court Garcia was deported in March, but was returned to face human trafficking charges in Tennessee.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Nearly two dozen people have been sentenced to federal prison for their involvement in money laundering and trafficking hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine. Another ...