State Prisons News

A physically fit inmate who was a known flight risk escaped from a central Arizona jail by hoisting himself atop a basketball hoop, grabbing on to an overhead security fence and breaking it apart, according to an investigative report released Monday.

A man who was a known flight risk escaped from a central Arizona jail by hoisting himself atop a basketball hoop, grabbing on to an overhead security fence and pulling it apart.

In this undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, an unidentified Arizona Corrections Officer adjusts the straps on the gurney used for lethal injections at the Arizona State Prison at Florence, Ariz.

Joey Fama, serving 32 years to life for the murder of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins, reveals how he and Tupac hit it off behind bars-and how his view of race changed.

Jeremy Noelle is the Local Union Council 31 representative for the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees.

Ralph Edwards sits on his tractor in Franklin County. His long career ended as director of state prisons, but he loved farming.

Amnesty International France and La Boite a Bulles have published a 128-page French language graphic novel entitled Panthers in the Hole.

Kristina Fetters at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women on Thursday, Sept.

A southern New Jersey woman who fatally stabbed a man last year during an argument in his home has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison.

Officials say an inmate is back in custody after he escaped from a Greer County minimum security prison last Wednesday.

McAlester - Joshua Drake once was offered the chance to be a corrections officer but turned it down because he didn't want to leave his wife and aging parents for six weeks to train hundreds of miles away in El Reno.

Larry Deklinski/Staff Photo A partially demolished building at 717-719 N. Shamokin St., which was owned by Larry Burda, who died earlier this year, is shown Friday afternoon.

Oregon's biggest prison held 3,056 prisoners on Friday and employed nearly 900 staffers, a corrections colossus that, if incorporated, would be the second-biggest city in Malheur County.

Rebecca Proctor, Executive Director of the Kansas Organization of State Employees, says there have been 17 inmate-on-staff batteries since June.

A third execution by lethal injection has gone awry in six months, renewing debate over whether there is a foolproof way for the government to humanely kill condemned criminals, and whether it's even worth looking for one.

Six months after his emergency declaration, many agencies and departments can't say whether their efforts to conserve water are sufficient because few have been comparing how much water they are using this year to last.

A Town of Plattekill man was sentenced Friday in Ulster County Court to 20 years in state prison for raping an 80-year-old woman in her home.

On Thursday, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office announced the arrest of 14 men on child pornography charges, as part of Operation Predator Alert II.

A fence surrounds the state prison in Florence, Ariz., where Joseph Rudolph Wood was put to death on Wednesday.

A Milwaukee man will spend three-and-a-half years in a state prison for helping rob a musician of a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin.