On Jan. 14, Mohamed Omar, a 31-year-old Nashville resident who buys and sells used cars for a living, was released after serving almost four years off and on in a federal detention center outside of Bowling Green, Ky. That in…
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Institutionalized Fraud, Waste and Abuse in TN Prisons
Lawmakers call it a perfect storm. Video, photographs and internal documents never intended to be made public put a state agency under intense scrutiny. Two years of stories alarmed lawmakers, infuriated the public and exposed what some call a system…
Read MoreWhat To Do With an Old Prison?
From the outside, it looks more like a castle than a modern-day prison. And the fortresslike facility stands out just as prominently as ever from Centennial Boulevard in West Nashville. But the Tennessee State Prison — built in 1898 during…
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…
Read MoreCorrupt District Attorney Avoids Prison, Keeps Job
Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk broke the law, but he will not be prosecuted for it. That’s the decision reached Tuesday by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery. The AG’s report comes nine months after NewsChannel 5 Investigates revealed how…
Read MoreStrange Things You Can Learn From Books
La Rochefoucauld said that it is easier to give good advice than to take it, to which he might have added that it is also easier to agree with good advice than to act on it. Enacting wisdom is a…
Read MoreStudy: Children With Both Parents In Prison Suffer
Three years ago, the little girl would hide under a table when confronted with reminders that both her parents were in prison. Now almost 10, she’s a confident, popular student, and ace recruiter for the program that helped her, says…
Read MoreState of TN Persecutes Whistleblower Who Uncovered Torture in Prisons
A state corrections employee was arrested by her own department. Some said she’s being targeted for whistle blowing. The state worker exposed the brutal beating of a correctional officer, but now she’s in trouble herself. Elaine Rollison was charged last…
Read MoreStupid: Prison Time for Digging Up Civil War Artifacts
Two Tennessee men have been charged with illegally excavating and taking civil war-era artifacts from the bottom of Fort McCook. The area, also know as Battle Creek, is located on property owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Kenneth Stephen Fagin,…
Read MoreObama First President to Visit Prison
Peering from the back seat of his armored black limousine, President Barack Obama rode into a razor wire-surrounded federal prison Thursday and said he met young inmates “who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made.” Obama…
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