Carbon County’s police chiefs have announced their support for a proposal that would create a reentry services center in the county; however, the board of commissioners say questions remain regarding ...

Carter County emergency management director Billy Harrell told News 5 late Friday his attorney has sent a new demand letter ...

Tennessee House of Representatives Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, is sponsoring both HJR0048 and , HJR0049. (Ian Round/The Daily Memphian file) The first resolution proposes an amendment to ...

Oklahoma lawmakers filed dozens of criminal justice bills ahead of the Jan. 16 deadline, including ambitious proposals to establish a full-time Pardon and Parole Board and institute a death ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

A Connecticut panel denied early parole Friday for a man convicted in a notorious 1991 ambush-style killing of a Connecticut State Police trooper during an early morning burglary of a gun shop.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government no longer backs transgender minors and their families in Tennessee who are ...

To the editor: The pseudonymous writer Peachy Keenan imagines that if conservatives like her had been in charge of California for the past half-century: They would have magically changed the laws ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A man who was a teenager when he killed another Grand Rapids teen in 1996 has been granted parole. Frederico Luis Cruz was 16 years old when he murdered 17-year-old David ...

The University of Tennessee is planning the next round of renovations to Food City Center. UT is installing an “NBA facility level of video board” and creating a new premium seating offering ...

William Folden, a Republican representing Frederick County. “They’re supposed to die in prison.” Maryland’s Parole Commission, which backs the idea of reform, has rarely approved medical parole ...

A man who attacked a homeless woman and set her on fire in Saskatchewan has been granted statutory release from prison with special conditions. Leslie Black, now 39, pleaded guilty to attempted ...