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…
What do 75% to 85% of the inmates in the Sullivan County, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia jails have in common?
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A man was injured after he crashed his car through an empty building on State Street this morning.
Read through the obituaries published today in Bristol Herald Courier - Tricities.
The Bristol Herald Courier’s series on jail overcrowding called “Critical Mass” has won two additional Virginia Press Association awards, incl…
After a week of heated debates about expanding the county jail and raising property taxes during a recession, the Sullivan County Commission d…
Local residents can get a detailed look at the Hard Rock Bristol Hotel and Casino by viewing an expansive three-dimensional model of the propo…
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