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 …
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What do 75% to 85% of the inmates in the Sullivan County, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia jails have in common?
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