The Midstate father of an inmate who died in Tennessee's largest private prisons wants to make sure no one else feels his ...

This story has been updated with new information. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation identified Alonso Martinez as the ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

State leaders have expressed reluctance to substantially discipline the private prison operator over its systemic operational ...

A U.S. Congressman has filed a bill to jam cell reception in prisons and police arrested teens for a string of burglaries.

The Tennessee Department of Correction has agreed to provide videophones, sign language interpreters and other accommodations ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

The Tennessee Legislature has a golden opportunity to improve the parole system and better allocate criminal justice ...

on March 3 the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered the execution of four death row inmates beginning in May. However, according to the suit, multiple studies show that the use of pentobarbital in ...

Two of the men who have filed the lawsuit have execution dates set for this year. Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection ...

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...