Food City has donated $25,000 toCommunities in Schools of Appalachian Highlands.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has appointed Joseph Walters as the 11th Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC).

A judge has ruled that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two men wearing suits sit side by side in what looks like a hearing room. Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An inmate was taken to a hospital after a fight occurred at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, ...

State lawmakers and the Tennessee Department of Correction are at odds over whether prison guards should be authorized to use body-worn cameras in Tennessee prisons. Both Democrats and Republicans say ...

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

A Nashville judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to allow reporters to witness the full execution of ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections quietly entered into an agreement with a powerful law firm last summer to monitor ...

JACKSON, Tenn. - An appeals court panel in Jackson affirmed a Lake County judge's order to move Austin Drummond out of a local jail and into a Tennessee Department of Corrections facility. Drummond ...

A Tennessee Senate panel wants officers at a privately run prison rocked by a 2025 riot to wear body cameras, despite opposition from the state's correction commissioner. The State and Local ...