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Representative Michael Curcio, District 69 – Dickson, received the Rod Bragg Recovery Hero Award at the Tennessee Association of Recovery Court Professionals Conference, held Dec. 8-10 in Murfreesboro.The award is named after Rod Bragg, who was an Assistant Commissioner with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Bragg was instrumental in moving the recovery courts from the Department of Finance and Administration to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abus ...

Until recently, sober living homes in Tennessee had the option to post signage indicating if they do not subscribe to national accreditation bodies. New legislation is now making it mandatory, among other new enforcements.

New 'Post-Conviction Fingerprint Analysis' law offers another chance at justice Once an innocent person is convicted and thrown behind bars it's hard to imagine another chance at justice, but a new law in Tennessee is changing that with fingerprint analysis of evidence. and last updated 2021-07-16 23:46:41-04 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It was a crime Adam Braseel says he paid for but says he never committed. “I guess the best way to describe it would be like I’ve been through everything a murderer goes through except the murder,” said Brasel who spent a total of 12 years in...

Challenges against Tennessee law are usually heard in Davidson County Chancery Court. This law will change that.

Matthew Charles was sentenced to a 35-year prison sentence in 1996 for trafficking in crack cocaine. Shortly after Congress passed and former President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act in December 2018, a judge ordered Charles released. As someone who spent 22 years in prison, I know first-hand that you are not the same person at sentencing that you are when you are released – and that there is too often not a path to have an excessive sentence reconsidered. I was the first person released under the federal First Step Act, landmark federal legislation signed by President Trump. When I...