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Three state correctional officers were injured in a brawl with maximum-security inmates at the North Branch Correctional Institution, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said ...

Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra compares himself to the biblical David and says angels dubbed Magdalena, Teresa, and Isaiah surround him.

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The family of a prisoner who died in a Metro jail wants to know if he was properly treated for pneumonia.

The nation's largest private prison operator is under scrutiny again - this time from the relatives of a man who died of pneumonia while incarcerated in a Metro jail in Nashville.

It's about time the United States scored a victory abroad. Mega-defense contractor Lockheed Martin learned last week that it has won the coveted contract to replace Norway's aging fleet of F-16 fighter jets, ...

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp.

The state's Department of Correctional Services will donate about 7,000 surplus winter coats to shelters and Salvation Army outlets throughout the state.

Delivery of the coats began this week to 35 New York communities.

In 2006, the agency switched the standard uniform for its officers to a single, multi-use coat rather than two separate heavy- and medium-weight coats.

The coats being donated were made by inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility's Apparel Shop within the last eight years and are no longer part of the standard uniform. The waist-length coats don't have state insignia on them.

MONTREALHard-pressed Garda World Security Corp. said Wednesday its armoured-car and security-guard services are "experiencing sustained performance despite the economic slowdown." In the North American cash ...

A year after he joined the Valley's largest manufacturing company Pelco's CEO Dean Meyer is speaking publicly for the first time and he sat down first with Action News.

Hamilton Sundstrand is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. . Martin Sommer , who has managed the MASO/Sine business since it was acquired in 1995 by Sundyne, will assist Guppy with the transition until ...

Gov. David A. Paterson is authorizing the state Department of Correctional Services to donate 7,000 surplus medium-weight winter coats to shelters and Salvation Army outlets throughout New York state.

About 300 state inmates will be removed from county jails, 154 from regional jails and 50 from private prisons beginning as early as January as the Mississippi Department of Corrections trims its budget by $6.5 ...

China Southern Airlines' Zhuhai Helicopter Company this week accepted two Sikorsky S-76C++ helicopters to support offshore oil projects in the South China Sea and Bohai Bay.

With the busiest retail shopping day of the year just over a week away, retailers and shoppers are hoping for an enjoyable holiday season.

Prison companies operating in Arizona and other states are preparing for a wave of new business as the economic downturn makes it increasingly difficult for federal and state government officials to build and ...

Digimarc Corp. has posted financial results as a stand-alone seller of digital watermarking solutions for the first time.

GFI Energy Ventures LLC announced today the completion of the sale of its portfolio company, NORESCO, one of the largest providers of energy management and performance contracting services in the United States, ...

The contracting U. S. economy might be keeping a lot of shoppers away from the mall, but at least one group is appearing more often --thieves. Shoplifting and employee theft have been on the rise this year as ...

As state officials deal with a looming budget deficit, some recent decisions are raising issues about life behind bars in state prisons.