State Prisons News

BOISE, Idaho - The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School."

Following a nearly two-year investigation that began as Dewey & LeBoeuf spiraled toward death, its former chairman, Steven Davis; its former executive director, Stephen DiCarmine; and its ex-chief financial officer, Joel Sanders, were accused Thursday of "concocting and overseeing a massive effort to cook the books" at the firm.

An Arizona Department of Corrections Officer was assaulted by an inmate at Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis in Buckeye Thursday, authorities said.

The Maine State Prison inmate who is accused of stabbing another inmate to death last week faced a judge today in Rockland via video from the prison.

An inmate who killed a Colorado prison guard pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Thursday to avoid the death penalty.

Sarah Jo Pender was convicted along with her former boyfriend, Richard Hull, of murdering their roommates Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman on Oct. 24, 2000, in Indiana.

A 41-year-old ex-convict from Utah could be eligible for parole almost immediately after being sentenced Wednesday to 12 to 30 months in Nevada state prison for a shooting that left him and a Mesquite police officer wounded almost a year ago.

Last summer, four alleged leaders of rival prison gangs worked together to coordinate a hunger strike at California's Pelican Bay State Prison.

An eastern Kentucky woman convicted of killing her husband by poisoning him with antifreeze is set to appear before the parole board later this month.

A suspended Wyoming Borough police officer accused of having sex with four teenage girls has pleaded guilty and agreed to serve two to four years in state prison.

A paroled West Scranton teen who served less than a year in county jail for causing the death of a toddler two years ago added time to his original sentence after nearly running over a railroad officer in April.

Rap Artist Lil Boosie was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola Wednesday night.

A man convicted of killing three people a quarter-century ago during two separate drunken sprees is likely one step closer to officially spending the rest of his life in prison.

Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that an Atlantic County couple has pleaded guilty to drug and weapons charges stemming from an investigation by the Atlantic City Violent Crime Task Force that resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of cocaine and an assault weapon from their home in January 2013.

Cameron D. Beck, 26, is jailed on charges of drug possession and prohibited sexual conduct.

More than a decade after he beat a corrections officer to death, opening arguments began Wednesday in the death penalty case against Edward Montour.

The Sioux Falls man accused of causing a fatal, five-car accident in the summer of 2012 was sentenced Tuesday.

What happened to the man who killed Jeffrey Wright in 1985 in south Sacramento? I think his name was George Payne.

The Syracuse man who operated a prostitution ring from the Metro-Jefferson Public Safety Building will go to state prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to sex trafficking.

A 66-year-old inmate has died while awaiting execution at San Quentin State Prison for a 1988 murder in Sacramento County.