State Prisons News

On December 5, the Vermont State Police began a collaborative investigation with the Department of Corrections at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, located in South Burlington, as information was received that narcotics were suspected to be brought into the facility by means of an infant during a scheduled visitation with a female ... (more)

A suburban Chicago man who pleaded guilty in a home invasion last year has been sentenced to 17 years in state prison.

A federal judge will decide next year whether the family of a fatally beaten inmate will receive restitution in addition to the $900,000 settlement the family got from the state prison system.

A Michigan Department of Corrections officer is seeking national recognition for a 19th century prison guard fatally poisoned by an inmate who was pardoned decades later.

A 35-year-old Springfield man has been sentenced to 10 to 12 years in state prison after a Hampden Superior Court jury found him guilty of three counts of rape of a child.

A Maine prison inmate has filed notice of a lawsuit against the state and the state prison in Windham because he was pepper-sprayed while restrained and left to suffer for more than 20 minutes.

Authorities say they're investigating the deaths of two inmates at New York's maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility.

ANTIOCH, Tenn. An employee with the Department of Corrections found himself behind bars after an argument with an ex-girlfriend spiraled out of control.

The Hampton landmark on the Chesapeake Bay is in line for $6.7 million in fiscal years 2015 and 2016 and more than $700,000 in supplemental funding in fiscal year 2014.

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.