Clinton Correctional Facility News

Share + Dec 16, 2009 11:55 pm US/Eastern Reporting Mary Calvi DANNEMORA, N.Y. He created a Halloween hell like no other.A Four years ago, Peter Braunstein sexually assaulted and terrorized a woman.

Albums promoted from jail are still rare, despite the on-again, off-again affairs that many popular hip-hop artists share with our nation's penal institutions.

A state judge is expected to decide soon whether there will be a wrongful conviction civil trial for a developmentally disabled Canastota man who spent three years behind bars before his sexual abuse conviction was thrown out in 2007.

Christina White and Jennifer Hammond were two young women who police believe were killed less than two years apart, their bodies dumped in the Daketown Forest area of Greenfield.

Rapper Shyne is expected to be released from prison today, as initially reported on HipHopDX this August [ click to read ]. The 30 year-old rapper a/k/a Jamal Barrow was sentenced to 10 years in June of 2001 for charges stemming from a high-publicized 1999 shooting incident involving Diddy and Jennifer Lopez .

Hours after his release from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, rapper Shyne has yet to taste freedom.

After serving nine years on assault and attempted murder charges, former Bad Boy rapper Shyne was set to be released from prison today [Ed Note: MTV reports that the MC is still in custody, due to his questions regarding his immigration status.] During his time in the joint for his part in a December 27, 1999 shootout inside Club New York, for ...

Peter Braunstein in July of 2008. Nearly four years after dressing like a firefighter and turning Halloween into a nightmare for a Manhattan woman, The Fiend is back with a haunting letter from prison.

September 04, 2009, 6:54 AM / A Bailey Avenue barber serving a 12-year prison term on a cocaine charge could be released soon, after a divided state appellate court reversed his 2008 conviction, court officials said Wednesday.

Wayne Oxley after his arraignement in August, 2005 Oxley gets new trial Attorney Rich Manning says he isn't surprised that Wayne Oxley's murder conviction was overturned by the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court.

Attorney Rich Manning says he isn't surprised that Wayne Oxley's murder conviction was overturned by the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court.However, he is frustrated at not being able to reach his incarcerated client to tell him about the reversal.'You can't call an inmate directly,' Manning said.

A correction officer fired a warning shot in an attempt to stop a fight among inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility.

Today is Wednesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2009. There are 162 days left in the year.

Team 10 investigation: Investigators interview convicted rapist James Comfort about Greece Police chief I-Team 10 is breaking new information in the ongoing investigation of Greece Police Chief Merritt Rahn.

A convicted robber will serve more time behind bars for his role in a massive prison brawl that left five officers injured last July.

Ralph "Bucky" Phillips was so close to troopers conducting a massive manhunt for him in 2006, he could hear them talking about the Buffalo Bills football team, the convicted cop killer later told investigators.

Editor's note: This is the last of three excerpts from the new book "The Bike Path Killer" by News Staff Reporters Maki Becker and Michael Beebe.

After investigating an inmate's death at Clinton Correctional Facility last fall, the Medical Review Board has faulted staff response and action.

State lawmakers in New Jersey plan to introduce a resolution calling on President Barack Obama and Congress to urge Cuba to return a woman who gunned down a state trooper in 1973.