COCKE COUNTY, Tenn. — A former inmate is suing Cocke County after he was "savagely and repeatedly beaten" by several other inmates over the course of an hour, a lawsuit states. Steven J.

It’s been nearly four and a half months since Hurricane Helene hit East Tennessee and the Cocke County Jail Annex is still closed. “It’s very tough because we just can’t just go upstairs ...

NEWPORT, Tenn. — The second group of 10 Cocke County Jail inmates graduated from a substance abuse program Friday. The Tennessee Jail Chemical Addiction Program is also known as TNJCAP or JCAP.

Warrants were taken out on Messer and he was taken into custody and transferred to the Cocke County Jail. Messer faces charges of statutory rape, forcible rape and aggravated sexual battery by an ...

Desiree Reagan (Cocke County Sheriff’s Office/TBI) The sheriff’s office confirmed that it, the TBI, Tennessee Highway Patrol, rescue squads, volunteer fire departments and the emergency ...

151; -- The last of the six inmates who escaped from a Tennessee jail by removing a leaky toilet was caught today in Georgia, officials said. Six inmates from the Cocke County Jail Annex in ...

In 2017, the Cocke County Jail was decertified by the Tennessee Corrections Institute, according to the lawsuit, for gross overcrowding and understaffing and poor living conditions for inmates.

One Cocke County Tennessee jail employee has been indicted by a grand jury and two others could be facing charges following an FBI investigation concerning drugs in their facility. Charles Webb ...

one county sheriff in east Tennessee is building an 8-foot-tall fence around his jail — to keep people out. It will be topped with spools of razor wire, too, the Cocke County Sheriff’s Office ...

Tennessee Valley Authority spokesperson Scott Brooks said. Approximately 50-60 inmates have been relocated from the Cocke County Jail to the Jefferson County Jail due to the threat of high water ...