State Prisons News

The man faces sentencing Friday after pleading guilty to attempted murder in what authorities say was a plot to kill a couple in Southern California, in a case that highlights the reach of Mexican traffickers.

An 88-year-old woman serving life in a Pennsylvania state prison is about to get a sixth chance to convince officials she deserves to spend the rest of her life outside prison.

Two men are going to prison for stabbing to death a man at a Southern California park 31 years ago.

A man from Wayne County was in court today to be sentenced for having sex with a 15-year-old girl last year.

Jeffrey Dingman, center, arrives with his lawyers for a parole board meeting at the State Prison Thursday Dec. 5, 2013 in Concord, N.H. .

Jeffrey Dingman, center, arrives with his lawyers for a parole board meeting at the State Prison Thursday Dec. 5, 2013 in Concord, N.H. .

A New Hampshire man who has spent more than half his life in prison for killing his parents when he was 14 will be freed if he completes counseling and learns the skills he'll need to return to society, a state parole board ruled Thursday.

Daniel Dalton Weaver, 24 of Wallowa, was sentenced to 80 months in state prison Monday morning by Judge Brian Dretke in Wallowa County Circuit Court.

Officials here, believing they are free of the latest round of challenges to Tennessee's death penalty, recently asked the state Supreme Court for execution dates for 10 death row inmates.

"Dr. Ubaldo" appeared in a Palm Beach County courtroom Wednesday to answer for his illegal Boca Raton home dentistry service.

Abel Lujan was arrested Wednesday morning on a warrant for first degree murder. He's already serving a four-year sentence in the Colorado Department of Corrections at the Sterling Correctional Facility in Sterling, CO on an unrelated case.

Our print edition this week tells the whole story of Jeff Mizanskey , the only man in Missouri serving a life sentence without parole for marijuana charges.

The City Council has unanimously approved the appointment of new student police officer Michael Lopez, whom Police Chief Robert DeMoura says will assist with strengthening ties with the city's youth.

Lee County Sheriff's Officials are asking people in North Lee County to keep watch for an escaped convicted murderer, who was spotted in the area Monday.

The state's Department of Corrections has locked down the Big Muddy River Correctional Center in Ina after dozens of inmates started to show flu-like symptoms.

Sunny Hall, 31, will be sentenced to nine years in state prison. Judge John Thompson allowed her to remain free on $350,000 bail pending a March 3 sentencing hearing at the El Cajon Courthouse.

Texas executed by lethal injection on Tuesday a man convicted of slamming a pickup truck into a mounted correctional officer in a prison escape attempt in 2007, knocking her off the horse and killing her.

A former Maryland news editor is being sent to prison for trying to seduce a 14-year-old girl who turned out to be an agent from the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.

JUNE 17: Former Tyco chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski exits Manhattan Criminal Court after being found guilty on all but one charge June 17, 2005 in New York City.

GRAFTON - " State prison officials have identified the inmate killed Sunday at Grafton Correctional Institution as 65-year-old Gerald Pierce.