Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary: Petros Known as the "End of the Line," the Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, situated about 40 miles northwest of Knoxville in Petros ...

Ray was sentenced to 99 years in Brushy Mountain Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee by Shelby County Criminal Court and died 29 years into his sentence in 1998 from health complications. The US ...

Ray was going to jail on a 99-year sentence. Ray was sent to the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, to serve his term. Ray would attempt to escape prison on several occasions ...

Brushy Valley Road at Mountain View Road and Pumpkin Hollow Road was closed for several hours as THP and the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office investigated the crash.

The 2019 suicide death of a sex offender in protective custody at Stony Mountain prison was not preventable, a judge has found, noting a transfer to solitary confinement would have amounted “to ...

Another Stony Mountain Institution inmate has died while ... more than two-and-a-half years for manslaughter on Dec. 4, the Correctional Service of Canada said Friday. His next of kin have been ...

The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed. By Amanda Abrams Diamon Pearson ...

In Prison Cell 211, a human rights lawyer finds himself stuck behind the walls when a deadly riot erupts in the Ciudad Juárez prison where he was visiting a client. Not great! The six-episode ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Among the stops on a tour Wednesday of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls was a group shower, a location which the state Department of Corrections ...