Former Tennessee State Senator Brian Kelsey has begun serving a 21-month prison sentence for campaign finance violations.

A former Tennessee state senator has reported to federal prison after he pleaded guilty in 2022 to an illegal campaign finance scheme, then tried to take back his plea.

Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey is now in federal prison after pleading guilty to campaign violations in 2022. The Germantown Republican was indicted on five counts of campaign violations relating to his 2016 run for the U.

GERMANTOWN, Tenn. - A former Tennessee state senator officially started his sentence in federal prison. Brian Kelsey, who represented Germantown in the Tennessee Senate from 2009 to 2022, showed up Tuesday morning as an inmate on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. He's incarcerated at FCI Ashland in Kentucky.

Former Tennessee State Senator Brian Kelsey is set to report to federal prison to begin a nearly two-year long sentence.