Minimum Security News

A Bossier inmate who walked away from a work detail at the minimum security facility a week ago is back in custody.

According to Josh Gelinas, the S.C. Department of Corrections is searching for an inmate who walked away from the minimum security Coastal Pre-Release Center in Charleston, on Monday.

A judge added more than a year to an inmate's prison stint for an escape in June.

A former teacher's assistant at the Burlington County Special Services School was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a special education student last year.

At approximately 15:30 on Friday, October 16, 2009, inmate Nicholas Franklin STEINHAUER escaped from Pe Sakastew Centre.

A Minden man was arrested today on federal hate crimes after he was secretly indicted Friday in connection with a cross burning near the Athens home of an interracial couple, according to an FBI news release.

Mark Mulligan / The Herald Sid Phair and Raymond Louie turn a cedar trunk into a totem pole Tuesday at the minimum security unit at the Monroe prison.

Although it is no longer operating, the state Department of Correction's Community Works Program could be restarted but it would cost local governments and other agencies that use inmate labor.

For almost 15 years, it has helped local governments, schools and agencies fix up their buildings and grounds, get needed projects done and improve the local community while also saving the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY --County prosecutors and law enforcement officials know crime doesn't care about budget cuts.

LANCASTER -- Fairfield County's Minimum Security Jail has reached the point in which it can keep no more women, forcing officials to ship many to other counties.

Former Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo has traded his suits for a prison uniform.

LANCASTER - The location for a future jail in Fairfield County has been narrowed to two possible sites.

A minimum security inmate was reported missing from a transitional housing unit in Concord on Wednesday.

A minimum security inmate was reported missing from a transitional housing unit in Concord on Wednesday.

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A minimum security inmate was reported missing from a transitional housing unit in Concord on Wednesday.

According to the ACI, John Celona has been released from Minimum Security, and is getting fitted for a monitoring bracelet at the Pinel building.

Specially trained police dogs have a long history of tracking bad guys on the lam, as well as sniffing out drugs and bombs.

A prison escapee's flight Friday didn't take him very far. Sam Dotson, the unit manager of the Marion Minimum Security Unit on N.C. 226 South, said Robert W. Herrmann, 32, fled through the woods while on work detail mowing the grass at the facility Friday.