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TDOC invites Tennesseans to apply for its Citizens' Correctional Academy, which offers insights into the correctional system.
Tennessee can move forward with next week's scheduled execution of a condemned man with a defibrillator after the state's ...
Dyersburg Police Department stated on social media that a large police presence was at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville.
Officials in a rural Tennessee town approved turning a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a ...
A Tennessean analysis of TDOC termination letters from 2024 shows that at least 149 correctional officers, corporals and sergeants employed by the department were fired in the 2024 calendar year.
The warden at Tennessee’s women’s prison in Nashville has resigned after the results of an investigation at a former ...
Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite ...
A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device at a ...
A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...
Quadruple murder suspect Austin Drummond bragged about his life behind bars, posting pictures on Facebook that featured a ...
Two Republican lawmakers are hitting a wall in negotiations with the Department of Correction to free up money for the revival of an intensive probation program coping with a 15% funding cut. Sens.