The captain of the jail currently holding Drummond said that the mass murder suspect smeared feces and hung paper over his ...

A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution ...

The Northwest Correctional Complex marked a milestone last month as 257 incarcerated men graduated from education and job training programs.

An attorney for a recently executed Tennessee inmate says an electrocardiogram showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two ...

Under current procedures, reporters are only allowed to observe once the condemned inmate is already strapped to the gurney.

Represented by RCFP attorneys, a news media coalition argues that Tennessee’s restrictions on press access to executions are ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Department of Corrections is carrying out an operation to ensure the safety of ...

The Tennessee Department of Corrections will transition from physical mail to scanned, digitized personal mail for inmates at ...

The complaint filed this week in Nashville argues witnesses should see the full execution process, from start to finish.

Federal attorneys for Harold Wayne Nichols, the only death row inmate from the Chattanooga area, have filed a lawsuit against ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are suing the State of Tennessee, accusing prison officials of violating ...