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Corinna Barrett Lain, author of “Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection,” is related to several ...
The state prison, which opened in 1898, was last used to hold inmates in 1992. The site has since been used as the set for several major films, but less frequently now that the main castle-like ...
A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...
NASHVILLE — From the outside, it looks more like a castle than a prison. But the Tennessee State Prison — built in 1898 during the tail end of the Gilded Age and last used as a state ...
The Tennessee State Prison, just west of Nashville, suffered extensive damage Tuesday, according to the state’s department of corrections. A 40-yard section of a stone wall and several power ...
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.
The Tennessee Department of Correction says the old Tennessee State Prison was also damaged in the storm. The prison suffered extensive damage, with pictures showing piles of brick and rubble ...