Going to Brushy Mountain State Prison. Where: Brushy Mountain State Prison is located in the mountains of Petros, Tenn., about 2 hours and 45 minutes from Nashville and 50 minutes from Knoxville.

Soon, people will be able to do something they've never done before: walk "freely" around Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. The historic space is now serving up food, moonshine and stories of ...

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 ...

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, also known as “the End of the Line,” originally opened in 1896 as a coal mine in the wake of a bloody labor battle, ...

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 ...

PETROS — For 113 years, three walls and a cliff alongside Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary were designed to keep some of the most violent criminals locked inside. But in 2009, when the prison ...

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, was transformed into a local distillery called Brushy Mountain. Brushy Mountain uses spring water from nearby Frozen Head State Park ...

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, ...

PETROS, Tenn. — 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 ...

The Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex is the state’s oldest prison at 113 years. It is closing Thursday because it’s become too expensive to upgrade and maintain. (AP Photo/Wade Payne) ...