Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many Tennessean inmates say the prison department is incorrectly calculating their sentences, and a court has already sided with ...

UPDATE: The Tennessee Attorney General's Office, which represents the state's corrections department in court, appealed this decision on Oct. 8. ORIGINAL STORY: A Nashville judge ruled last week that ...

With a set of outdated legal books, a typewriter, and centuries of prison time in the balance, Howard Atkins proved the state wrong. He is trying to do it again. Atkins, 40, is one of 1,828 people in ...