Of the $91.5 million in new funding, $36.9 million will go toward boosting TDOC employee salaries, $21.7 million will go toward Hepatitis C treatments for inmates, and the remainder will go to ...

In the suit, the inmates claim the drug’s scarcity, difficulty in obtaining it, and overall secrecy surrounding the state’s supply of it, all point to constitutional violations by the TDOC.

As part of the settlement, TDOC will pay $7,000 each to three inmates in damages and $3.25 million to Disability Rights Tennessee. The agency will distribute the payments, according to court ...

After a five-year reprieve from executions after errors were revealed in the previous protocol, on March 3 the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered the execution of four death row inmates beginning in May.

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed ... creates a high risk that a person receiving a lethal injection administered by TDOC will be tortured to death,” the suit says.

In 2022, just hours away from the execution of death row inmate, Oscar Smith, Gov. Lee again ordered a pause on the death penalty after discovering the TN Dept. of Correction (TDOC) wasn’t ...