The historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County used to be the place nobody wanted to go. Serving time in Brushy meant you were a violent criminal — likely the worst of the worst. The ...

What was once considered the end of the line is now drawing lines back to Petros, Tenn. Since it reopened as a tourist attraction fewer than five weeks ago, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary has ...

Wartburg — It was once a home to the worst convicts, but now, everyone will be lining up to get inside. Starting this weekend, you can tour Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. The historic state ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Visit a Morgan County prison for an experience that is almost too real. The Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary became operating as a prison and housed some of the ...

I did some time at Brushy Mountain last weekend. Not long, though, and I was on the outside looking in. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary at Petros, a small town in Morgan County outside of Wartburg, ...

PETROS, Tenn. — The place where the worst criminals in Tennessee counted the days to get out is now the site where tourists have been counting the days to get in. After closing for the winter, Monday, ...

PETROS, Tenn. — Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County once held some of the worst criminals in Tennessee. The historic penitentiary is now a tourist attraction and several former inmates ...

Being imprisoned with violent criminals in a remote, hard-knocks prison like the infamous Brushy Mountain Tennessee State Penitentiary is not something I would ever want to experience. But it was ...

Taking a page from Johnny Cash's playbook, Old Crow Medicine Show are paying homage to prison life with the release of their newest music video for "Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer." The video is set ...

When the whistle blew, everyone in Petros, Tennessee, knew it was lunchtime at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. To the outside world, it was the place that housed James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King ...

The state will shut down 107-year-old Brushy Mountain State Prison in Morgan County and build a new $90 million prison nearby to replace it, Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Monday. In 1996, the Tennessee ...