The first thing you notice about Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is the bone-chilling cold of the place. The proprietors of the century-old prison, in recent years a tourist attraction in a ...

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 ...

Hidden from the outside world deep within the mountains of Tennessee in Petros, curious minds can find one of America's most notorious prisons in history: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Opened in ...

PETROS, Tenn. (WATE) – Thousands of inmates died at the historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, but their spirits are still very much alive at the prison. Brushy Mountain offers paranormal tours ...

(WBIR - Morgan County) A plan to transform a historic prison from a place where criminals served hard time into a tourist destination for hard liquor continues to make slow and steady progress. It has ...

Up to 4,000 people will be permitted to attend a prison concert on Saturday at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The concert is part of the ...

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 ...

For more than a century, Brushy Mountain kept the state of Tennessee's most dangerous criminals behind bars. The likes of Martin Luther King Jr.'s convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, were sent to the ...

PETROS, Tenn. (WATE) – Compass will hold a gun show and auction at the historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary on October 9 and 10. The proceeds from ‘Pistols at the Prison’ will benefit the ...

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