JACKSON, Tenn. — The Tennessee Department of Correction hosted a job and resource fair Thursday. Held at the T.R. White Sportsplex in Jackson, the fair connected community members with employment ...

Though state officials have resisted new accountability measures for CoreCivic, the legislation has received bipartisan ...

Powers was one of 46 death row inmates in Tennessee. He was convicted in the death of Shannon Sanderson in 1996.

Attorneys for Tennessee death row men Oscar Smith and Byron Black are calling on Governor Bill Lee to issue a temporary halt ...

Three years after curtailing an intensive probation program, the Department of Correction is reviving Community Corrections as part of a last-ditch effort to keep offenders out of prison. The state is ...

They also contend that the Tennessee Department of Correction has failed to make changes to the execution process as the governor and an independent investigator recommended — or if it has, it has not ...

The warden of Core Civic's Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility has resigned. A spokesperson from the Tennessee Department ...

He was 70. A spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction confirmed in a statement the news about Powers, who was one of 45 male death row inmates in Riverbend Maximum Security ...

Attorneys for two Tennessee inmates facing execution this year are asking Gov. Bill Lee to declare a reprieve until a judge ...

audits say Tennessee's CoreCivic prisons underperform "At least in a [Tennessee Department of Correction] prison, they have a much better chance of staying alive and making it to the end of their ...

To put the $25 million request from victim service providers in perspective, the Tennessee Department of Correction spent over $900 million on incarceration in 2023. Rather than focusing ...

They also contend that the Tennessee Department of Correction has failed to make changes to the execution process as the governor and an independent investigator recommended — or if it has ...