Former Tennessee Department of Correction employee Rustin Bowen is convicted of charges involving multiple child victims.

The Knoxville Police Department received approval to expand their co-responder program which helps people having a mental health crisis.

Following years of decline, the state's prison population jumped by 8% in 2022, and signs indicate it's still on the rise.

The state's private prisons see higher numbers of deaths and sexual assaults while providing less opportunity for support and education.

Dana Riner said her son developed schizophrenia while in isolation for two years at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center.

ST. LOUIS – In North St. Louis, another historic church has been lost to a fire—the fifth in just five years. Investigators are still working to determine what caused the fire, but officials say the ...

The mayor of the City of St. Louis called lawmakers from outside the city “disrespectful” for filing legislation to put the ...

At least two students were wounded by gunfire at a Nashville high school Wednesday but the situation has been contained, police said. Metro Nashville Police spokesperson ...

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local ...

A Davidson County woman convicted last October of embezzlement is back behind bars after violating her parole, the Davidson ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The murder of a Honolulu teen in 1977 was solved after an arrest was made thousands of miles away. The ...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney General told the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to stop using pentobarbital, the same drug Tennessee selected in its new execution protocol, because ...