Tennessee tied Arizona for states with the highest percentage of prisoners in private institutions. Here's how they compare to other states.

Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.

State Correctional Facility death of 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi has sparked an investigation by state officials. Nantwi’s ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an agreement to end a wildcat strike that has roiled the state’s prison system for ...

One inmate reportedly died on Friday at Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC). The Missouri Department of Corrections shared that Lewis Younce, 49, was pronounced dead at the prison on Feb. 21, ...

Lewis Younce, a resident of the Jefferson City Correctional Center, was pronounced dead at 8:55 p.m. on Friday at the age of 49, according to a news release from the Missouri Department of ...

CHARLESTON, Maine (WABI) - The Maine Department of Corrections has confirmed that an inmate has died at the Mountain View Correctional Facility. Roland Dennis Jalbert, 69, of Hancock passed away ...

MARCY, N.Y. -- A local assemblyman has called for immediate action to address the "ongoing crisis" in New York State correctional facilities. Assemblyman Robert Smullen (R,C-Mohawk Valley and the ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. – On Friday, the state house voted down a bill that would appropriate $763 million from the state’s incarceration construction fund for a new men’s prison that would have been located ...

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Tennessee official sends property assessor letter Feb. 18 about failing to meet Feb. 3 extended deadline to make corrections on inaccurate assessments ... that his assessments are "contrary to state ...

Corrections officials halted all outside visits to New York state prisons in the face of a growing jail guard strike and sporadic inmate unrest — as riots erupted at another upstate lockup Thursday.