State Prisons News

A visitor to the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City was arrested on a charge of trafficking after she attempted to smuggle a cellular telephone to an inmate, the Indiana Department of Correction said.

A man sentenced to death for killing his estranged wife and two of her relatives apologized to family members on Oprah Winfrey's television show.

His shooting spree left at least 10 dead and millions terrified of bullets coming from an unseen sniper.

A state trooper in northwest Ohio who was once honored for making the most DUI arrests has been charged with drunken driving.

Dr. William Petit has asked the state attorney general to look into whether the state Department of Correction acted improperly when it allowed murder suspect Joshua Komisarjevsky to be interviewed for a book.

A judge Thursday said he expected to find acts like the ones that made Michael Mele a registered sex offender "in a secure mental health facility, or zoo, not in a mall in the United States of America." Orange County Court Judge Nicholas DeRosa called Mele's lewd conduct at the Palisades Center mall "depraved and unfathomable" as he sentenced the ...

A consulting group hired to find ways to slash costs in the state's prison system released its final report last week.

A York man who pleaded guilty in the crash that killed a Latimore Township police officer could spend up to five years in prison.

A 37-year-old inmate serving five years on drug charges was stabbed to death Sunday night at Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover.

This October 2002 photo provided by the Equal Justice Initiative shows Terrance Graham, 15, in Jacksonville, Fla.

A county jury today convicted Owen McAllister, 43, of one count of felony burglary and misdemeanor counts of petty larceny and possessing stolen property for a March 26 break-in at a home in Ardsley.

State Police arrested two inmates subsequent to investigation into a violent edged weapon assault and stabbing which took place on August 12, in the "C" Block Yard at Attica State Prison.

WHITE PLAINS - A 24-year-old former all-star athlete was sentenced to one to three years in state prison today for causing a drunken-driving crash that killed her best friend last year.

One of the men convicted of murdering Tom Monfils in a Green Bay paper mill 12 years ago has enlisted the aid of the Wisconsin Innocence Project in seeking a new trial.

To this day, it's still a mystery how William Jasper Sims died near the railroad tracks at Crown Cotton Mill on Aug.

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One warm day in August 2007 was just like any other day at work for William "Bill" Bond, a second shift sergeant at Valdosta State Prison.

Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and district attorneys around Oregon are being saddled with extra costs and workload from having to conduct thousands of resentencing reviews.

A Rockland judge today sentenced a county businessman to state prison and ordered him to pay $226,000 for stealing ownership of a house he had co-owned with his live-in girlfriend.

A sexually violent predator reintegrated into the community in April following years of treatment at a mental hospital was arrested for violating terms and conditions of his release, authorities said Friday.