In August, complaints surfaced of two employees watching jail surveillance video of inmates naked or masturbating.

Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.

Vanessa Murtaugh, ex-chair of the Tennessee Inmate Disciplinary Board and former assistant DA, was charged with statutory ...

Vanessa Murtaugh, 46, was indicted on charges including statutory rape by an authority figure and aggravated statutory rape.

The former chairwoman of a state board that oversees inmate discipline has been charged with two counts of statutory rape. Vanessa Murtaugh, 46, was indicted by a grand jury on ...

A member of a board designed to review punishment for crimes is now on the wrong side of a criminal investigation.

A former board member of the Inmate Disciplinary Oversight has been arrested and charged with rape, court records show.

Vanessa Murtaugh, a member of Tennessee's inmate disciplinary board, and a former Shelby County prosecutor, has been indicted ...

On Tuesday, the Marquette County Board unanimously voted to place no ... At that time, the jail housed as many as 103 total inmates but had a capacity of 80. Derocha says 47% of last year ...

The move is the next step in the process to resume executions in Tennessee, which were formally paused in 2022 over quality concerns with the drugs used in lethal injection. Several other people ...

The Tennessee Attorney General's Office is asking the state Supreme Court to set execution dates for five people on death row, five years after the state last put a person to death. The Attorney ...