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'Empty promises:' Riot at largest Tenn. prison renews call for leadership overhaul
A riot at Tennessee’s largest prison left one guard injured and is now fueling calls for the state to take over the privately ...
Tennessee prison reform advocate is first ex-inmate named to US prisons bureau leadership
Joshua J. Smith, 50, was appointed deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons on June 9, according to a bureau spokesperson. He is the first formerly incarcerated person to hold a leadership position at ...
The Criminal Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Highly Suspect
On Friday, the Trump administration finally complied with multiple court orders to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the ...
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In Tennessee, a Dwindling Group of People Can Vote While Still in Prison
Tennessee is notorious for felony voter disenfranchisement. What's not widely known is that some currently incarcerated ...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, newly returned to US, appears in court on charges of trafficking migrants
Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in a Tennessee courtroom Friday, hours after he was brought back to the U.S. to face charges of ...
How the Head of an Embattled Tennessee Youth Detention Center Held on to Power for Decades
Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio, and Mariam Elba, ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local ...
Knoxville businessman pardoned by President Trump in 2021 named new Bureau of Prisons deputy director
Joshua Smith was formerly incarcerated in federal prison for drug trafficking charges. After his release, he founded a ...