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 ...

The harsh walls even housed James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. More: Manhunt in the mountains: James Earl Ray and the Brushy Mountain Prison breakout of 1977 So why ...

(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 ...

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was built in 1896 and served as one of Tennessee's high-security prisons. Notable parts of the prison's history include supplying inmates for the Coal Creek ...

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 ...

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 ...

During his time at the historic Brushy Mountain State Prison, Ray was stabbed 22 times by his fellow inmates. Some say the amount of violence, death and despair experienced at places like the ...

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 ...