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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The Sullivan County Commission agreed to move nearly $100,000 in additional funds to the county coroner and medical examiner’s budgets to cove…
ABINGDON, Va. — An Abingdon firefighter was transported to Johnson Memorial Hospital for exhaustion following a mobile home fire Saturday.
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. — The Sullivan County Regional Health Department will offer COVID-19 vaccines at multiple locations over the next few weeks…
BRISTOL, Tenn. — A water quality report published Monday shows Bristol, Tennessee’s drinking water meets or exceeds state and federal water qu…
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Bristol, Tennessee purchasing staff will provide information and answer questions for current and prospective vendors interes…
Read through the obituaries published today in Bristol Herald Courier - Tricities.
