With its prisoner population soaring, Bristol Virginia leaders received some staggering information Tuesday on the cost to replace its aging, …
The Bristol Herald Courier’s series on jail overcrowding called “Critical Mass” has won two additional Virginia Press Association awards, incl…
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. — Consultants working on a master plan for the future of Sullivan County’s jail recommended recently that the county start …
The Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority, which houses more prisoners than any other jail authority in the state, has been operating for…
BRISTOL, Va. — As recently as 2018, Bristol Virginia City Council studied closing the city’s nearly 50-year-old jail and sending all prisoners…
Right now, it’s a mess. An inhumane, dangerous, immoral mess that only feeds on itself. Human warehouses. Nothing more than a production line …
“Don’t put so many people in jail.” At first glance, such a solution may seem childlike. Radical, even. Maybe even crazy or unsafe. It is actu…
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BLUFF CITY, Tenn.--An unidentified body was discovered Tuesday in a wooded section of Bluff City, Tennessee, according to the Sullivan County …
Shelly Brown has been named the new president/chief executive officer of United Southeast Federal Credit Union (USFCU).
Read through the obituaries published today in Bristol Herald Courier - Tricities.
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Beth Ann Beard was an avid NASCAR fan who made annual pilgrimages to Bristol Motor Speedway.
