The Tennessee Department of Correction wants to pay $6.8 million more to the state’s private-prison operator next year ...

Mark Holdren pleaded guilty to conspiring with other officers to violate Burks’ civil rights ... about Burks’ death but said ...

Mark Holdren pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday for his role in an assault in connection with the death of an ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former correctional officer in southern West Virginia pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal civil ...

State officials will name a $1 billion prison in Elmore County after Gov. Kay Ivey, who made its construction a priority in ...

The state’s workforce of correctional officers plummeted during the COVID pandemic and ... contraband weapons and cell phones getting to inmates, often via drones. The federal prison system has begun ...

A former correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail admitted in federal court Wednesday to his role in the March 2022 beating death of inmate Quantez Burks. Will Thompson Mark Holdren, 40, ...

Tennessee has charged CoreCivic $29.6 million in fines for contract violations across all four of its prisons since 2022.

Three Ontario police associations released a statement Wednesday calling on the federal government to implement stricter bail ...

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R - Iowa) announced on Wednesday her support of the bipartisan Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act ...

A former correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with an assault that led ...

Trousdale County with a population of about 12,000 is Tennessee's smallest county by area at 117 square miles. The county seat of Hartsville once had a thriving tobacco market, but the industry had ...