Though state officials have resisted new accountability measures for CoreCivic, the legislation has received bipartisan ...

TDOC is hosting a Rapid Hire Event to recruit correctional officers, offering high salaries and sign-on bonuses.

Tennessee has paid nearly $600,000 for lethal injection drugs in recent years, but the details are shrouded in secrecy.

A group of inmates has reached a settlement with the Tennessee Department of Correction after successfully suing the department last year for not providing sign language interpreters and ...

Nine men on death row in Tennessee have filed a legal challenge against the state’s newly-adopted lethal injection protocol, ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction has settled a five-year-old lawsuit that alleged the state’s treatment of deaf inmates violated federal law. (Photo: Getty Images.) Advertisement ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four inmates, including Oscar Smith, who was within minutes of being executed in 2022, when Gov. Bill Lee issued a sudden ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — State executions should resume in May after the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) completed its multi-year revision of the state’s lethal injection protocol.

The Tennessee Department of Correction issued a new execution protocol in late December that will utilize the single drug pentobarbital. That was the green light the state’s high court needed to reset ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction announced in December that it adopted a new lethal injection protocol using the barbiturate pentobarbital, and after a five-year reprieve from executions ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.

(WATE) — A man who was serving a life sentence sentence for a first-degree murder conviction has been convicted of assaulting four Tennessee Department of Correction officers, including one who ...