State Prisons News

Steven Hayes , one of two convicts sentenced to death in a 2007 Connecticut home invasion, was in stable condition Monday after he was found unresponsive earlier in the day in his prison cell, authorities said.

A Lafayette man, convicted nearly eight years ago in the death of a state trooper has been arrested again and has now been charged with felony aggravated animal cruelty.

Brenda Kirby and Charles Davis have requested a medical clemency release for their son, 35-year-old Jason Scott Davis.

Two former state correctional officers are going to federal prison for conspiring in the severe beating of an inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution near Hagerstown in 2008.

A MAN has been charged after allegedly trying to fly drugs into a maximum-security prison in Melbourne's west using a drone.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports 34-year-old Javier Enrique Molina had ties to inmates who were all part of the same gang at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Las Cruces.

A Mexican drug lord said to have been killed more than three years ago was shot dead in a clash with authorities Sunday, officials said.

Aaron Bonds was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman, but guilty of drugging her and two friends after a night of bar hopping in downtown Portsmouth in July 2012.

Inmates and staff have put up murals and military paraphernalia at a southern Ohio prison to create what they call a "Veterans Corridor" in tribute to people who served in the U.S. military.

At 6:10 a.m. on Oct. 15, a medical technician handling the morning "pill pass" at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Fresno County spotted inmate David Scott Gillian hanging inside cell No.

Richard Spillane, bald and gaunt after almost 30 years in state prison, says the mental illness that led him to murder his parents in the family's Ho-Ho-Kus home has been under control for years.

I've been thinking about it, and I think it all started back when I was 5 or 6 years and Dad built... In this 2010 file photo, the firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, is shown.

A Benner state prison inmate faces assault and arson charges after police say he started a fire in his cell and attacked an officer.

California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.

Clarksville Police discovered the body of 7-month-old Astrid Johnson in the home early Friday morning and charged her Clarksville mother, Stefany Paige Johnson, 24, with criminal homicide later in the day, according to police spokeswoman Natalie Hall.

As lawmakers head into their last week of the 2014 legislative session, here's a look at some of the top issues coming up: Negotiations over where to funnel state money in the next fiscal year have been sputtering.

Isaiah Pleasant, 21, of Albany, was found guilty of one felony count of Robbery, and one felony Count of Strangulation in Albany County Supreme Court on Friday.

Despite a killing at the Maine State Prison in Warren last week in which one inmate is charged with tying up another inmate and stabbing him 87 times, the commissioner of the Department of Corrections said Friday that Maine's correctional facilities are safer now than they've ever been.

Lil Boosie isn't waiting to give fans some new music. The rapper was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary on Wednesday after serving time for felony drug charges.

An inmate was shot in the hand Friday morning when a correctional officer tried to stop him from beating an unconscious man at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, officials said.