A Tennessee city has approved a $28 million settlement in a lawsuit that said police deliberately botched investigations into ...

Tennessee's prison population has increased ... The state’s prisons as of June 2024 held 21,867 men and 2,473 women. About one-third of inmates are serving their time in one of the state ...

Tennessee's prison population has increased ... s prisons as of June 2024 held 21,867 men and 2,473 women. About one-third of inmates are serving their time in one of the state’s four private ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

The state's private prisons see higher numbers of deaths and sexual assaults while providing less opportunity for support and ...

Quincy Scott's sentence was handed down during a Thursday afternoon hearing. He was convicted of ordering an inmate to ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Over 150 women were raped and killed during a mass jailbreak in Congo's Goma, as inmates set fire to the prison. The incident occurred during clashes between M23 rebels and Congolese forces.

By Shaila Dewan and Amy Harmon President Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.