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

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

Some of the lessons being taught by Rhodes College professors aren’t being delivered in a lecture hall, or even on a school campus, but inside a facility at the West Tennessee State Penitentiary.

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

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 ...