Joshua J. Smith, 50, was appointed deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons on June 9, according to a bureau spokesperson. He ...

Putnam County is partnering with U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement to hold immigration detainees in its newly expanded ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was sentenced to death for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife Judith Robirds Smith and her sons ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Knox County Mental Health Court is giving some offenders a new pathway rather than jail time. It’s a unique approach to address mental illness in the community. “It’s done a ...

A private correctional company says inmates at a Tennessee prison sought to destroy property, compromised security cameras ...

Unrest in a prison northeast of Nashville has been contained, the sheriff says, and all prisoners returned to their cells after officers sprayed chemical agents into the prison yard.

A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Alabama in what will be the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen ...

Policymakers and criminal justice reform activists seek an audit and reevaluation of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention ...

Two years after approving a tough-on-crime sentencing law, South Dakota is scrambling to deal with the price tag for that ...

The rise of artificial intelligence and the popularity of online classes have led to an explosion of financial aid fraud.

Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate ...

CoreCivic, who owns and operates the prison, said it started when several inmates refused to return to their cells. CoreCivic Senior Director of Public Affairs Ryan Gustin said local law ...