State Prisons News

A man who had worked as a Cook County correctional officer was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Friday in Lake County, Indiana, after being convicted of the road-rage killing of a man last year who had thrown a cup at his vehicle.

Sean McGurk, 42, of Concord is facing an enhanced simple assault charge for biting state Trooper James Powers' finger, leaving him on the roadside dazed and injured on Dec. 21, prosecutors said.

A southern New Jersey man is now headed to prison after he unsuccessfully sought to withdraw his guilty plea in the slaying of a man found shot to death at an apartment complex.

Two California Republicans who are running for governor are sticking to familiar themes and familiar faces as they try to win over new supporters at this weekend's party convention in Burlingame.

Two Atlantic City men who fired several shots into a group of teens outside a city apartment complex have each been sentenced to 15 years in state prison.

Michael Cartenuto, 50, was sentenced after he violated a No Contact Order of Protection on three different dates: January 3, 2013, February 9, 2013, and February 24, 2013.

A Saratoga County judge on Friday sentenced a Greenfield woman to four years in state prison for possessing methamphetamines and items used to manufacture "meth," prosecutors said.

On Friday, Young Lee, a co-founder of frozen yogurt company Pinkberry, was sentenced to seven years in state prison for beating a homeless man with a tire iron.

A judge sentenced a Wisconsin man to 27 years in state prison Friday for drugging and sexually assaulting eight women.

Bob Thomas, the longtime Associated Press reporter who kept the world informed on the comings and goings of Hollywood's biggest stars, from Clark Gable to Tom Cruise, died Friday.

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A convicted murderer praised for maintaining a stellar record during his 39 years behind bars may soon become the rare Iowa inmate to be freed after being sentenced to life in prison.

Questions are being raised about the convictions of two men who were sentenced to long prison terms for a 1996 Norfolk rape.

The state Department of Corrections says 69-year-old Allen Lee Hall died Sunday in the hospice care unit of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville.

A southern Kentucky woman has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison after telling a court she set her trailer on fire with two people inside.

Rapper Torence " Lil Boosie " Hatch was ordered Thursday to perform 100 hours of community service in New Orleans as part of his four-year probation term stemming from a 2009 guilty plea to a marijuana possession charge.

Five prison guards from Autry State Prison in Mitchell County have lost their jobs and are facing charges after an investigation from the Georgia Department of Corrections.

An attorney for one of two men sentenced to death in a gruesome Connecticut home invasion says the prisoner sent suicidal letters before he was found unresponsive in his cell Monday.

A Hudson Valley man has been sentenced to 44 years to life in state prison for killing a 67-year-old woman whose body was found in her home on Thanksgiving Day 2012.

Louisiana's longest-serving death row inmate was freed on Tuesday after a state district judge voided his murder conviction and death sentence.