In the modest museum inside the prison, displays include not only weapons and contraband taken from prisoners but a pair of brass knuckles that belonged to a former warden and a wooden-handled strap ...

Harvey said "The Hole" inmates were provided two pots ... Now, the 86 acres of the Brushy Mountain prison tract is owned by the Morgan County Economic Development Board and leased to May ...

But at the old Brushy Mountain State Prison, the hole was aptly named, as it was located in the basement of the laundry room, with a tiny window that allowed, on a bright day, only a few rays of ...

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County ... "It's sad that until this day I'm watching my back." The prison shut down in 2009 after 113 years and was recently revived as a historic ...

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 ...

(WATE) — A common theme among the most haunted places are areas where people died frequently, and one old prison in East Tennessee fits right into that theme. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary ...

RELATED: Back to Brushy Mountain: the historic prison's past and future One of the main attractions on the tour remains "the hole" where prisoners were punished with confinement in tiny pitch ...

And in Morgan County, old-timers still talk about the two-and-a-half days that turned the country’s eyes on Brushy Mountain State Prison when ... crowbar to punch a hole in his cell wall and ...

The mines had already shut down when the state said it was inhumane to house people at Brushy Mountain. It seemed like Petros’ death knell. “Since the prison closed in ’09 there wasn’t ...

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." ...

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County ... "It's sad that until this day I'm watching my back." The prison shut down in 2009 after 113 years and was recently revived as a historic ...

And in Morgan County, old-timers still talk about the two-and-a-half days that turned the country’s eyes on Brushy Mountain State Prison when ... crowbar to punch a hole in his cell wall and ...