The cases of Clark McMillan and Lawrence McKinney — two men who spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit — have exposed a major blind spot in the Tennessee criminal justice system that lawmakers need to correct….
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Shock: Sumner County Jail Let Inmate Die
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death of a Sumner County jail inmate who died earlier this month. The investigation comes after a new state law requires an outside agency to review the deaths of inmates. Keith Baskerville,…
Read MoreAnother State Attorney In Trouble After Inmate Dies at Hands of Prison Guards
The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is defending one of its attorneys accused of “willful fraud” and lying to a federal judge in the wrongful death lawsuit of an inmate at Riverbend. Veteran attorney Arthur Crownover filed an affidavit in federal…
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