As Duncan makes peace with her past, she hopes others will embrace what some may take for granted. "I just want to live in ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court refused to hear Christa Pike's challenge to her death sentence, but another case won her more ...

Prosecutors said that in 2001, Pike strangled Patricia Jones, another woman at the Tennessee Prison for Women, nearly killing her. Pike would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than ...

Plus, Democrats again file a safe-storage bill and there's no hearing set yet for Rep. John Ragan's 'bona fide' voter ...

This October, she was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for the ... has found that over 500 women were charged in the decade since the law passed. Tennessee tried to follow suit ...

Cyntoia Brown, another young Black woman who made national news, spent 15 years in a Tennessee prison after she killed ... She is the author of “Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir ...

47, was sponsored by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and thus far has 28 cosponsors, all Republicans including Senator Tom Cotton who has supported long prison ... these men and women away from ...

Wondering as to how prohibited narcotic and drug related substances were made available inside the prison, the Madras High Court has directed the Additional Public Prosecutor to secure appropriate ...

A 31-year-old Tennessee man who said he killed a man at a North Little Rock motel while rescuing his niece from the victim ...

Advocates propose legislation that would require judges to consider whether a person is a caregiver during sentencing and ...

Tennessee's Department of Corrections is facing heat from a lawmaker who has questions about its oversight of the private, for-profit prison operator ... rights and women's health among their ...