Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said Tuesday the county has spent $127 million housing state inmates, adding the state should ...

Proposed state legislation could increase transparency and accountability in correctional facilities plagued by violence ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Department of Corrections is going digital next month for inmate mail. Starting on Nov. 3, inmate mail will be processed and scanned before being delivered to ...

Body-worn cameras are not used by guards inside Tennessee’s prisons but some made the case for them in a Tennessee Senate hearing Tuesday, though state corrections officials pushed back. The hearing ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The attorney for murder suspect Austin Drummond is fighting a Lake County judge’s order to move him to a state prison while he awaits trial. Drummond’s attorney, Drew Farmer, filed a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WMC) - The Tennessee Department of Corrections will transition from physical mail to scanned, digitized personal mail for inmates at all TDOC facilities. This transition will begin ...

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TDOC will move some inmates to state facilities after a riot at the state's largest private prison.

HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Officials with the Tennessee Department of Corrections were called to testify Wednesday before a state Senate subcommittee on corrections. TDOC officials answered questions ...

TROUSDALE COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — There’s a call for change at one of Tennessee’s most dangerous prisons, the Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility. The most recent incident, was a riot that put the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Federal Communications Commission recently took the first step in allowing state and local prisons to use technology that blocks cellphone signals in hopes of stopping ...

The past couple weekends saw record low reports in serious crime as the Mid-South turned into a winter wonderland, but as the weather has gotten warmer the past few days, criminals in Memphis are ...