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Coming Tuesday: We talk to inmates about the living conditions in the overcrowded Sullivan County jail. The population continues to rise, with cells holding triple their capacity and its linear ...
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – Sullivan County Sheriff Jeff Cassidy said an inmate “pay to stay” program would not work at the county jail, despite the efforts of some county commissioners to ...
BLOUNTVILLE — The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office decreased the number of inmates in the Sullivan County Jail by 310 between January and April, according to a study conducted by the County ...
At the request of the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office, detectives from the Indiana State Police Putnamville Post are ...
Authorities have released the identity of an inmate who died at the Sullivan County Jail Thursday. The Sullivan County Coroner’s Office has positively identified the inmate as Brandon M. Houser, age ...
An inmate who escaped with two others from a jail in northeast Tennessee last week was arrested Thursday in North Carolina, officials said. The trio escaped the Sullivan County Jail through an ...
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WCYB) — A resolution in Sullivan County would create a "Pay to Stay" program at the Sullivan County Jail. Under the proposal, inmates inside the jail for more than 24 hours ...
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL)- It’s currently impossible to know how many inmates at the Sullivan County Jail are positive for COVID-19. As of Wednesday, Sullivan County Health Department ...
The body of the individual that was found Thursday morning at the Sullivan County Jail, has been positively identified ...
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn ... Authorities with the SCSO say the inmates are stable and have since returned to jail. The SCSO says the incident is now being investigated, to determine what happened.