State Prisons News

Eric John Knysz, the Irons man convicted of murdering Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II, has been declared clinically brain dead after Monday's suicide attempt, a Grand Rapids TV station has reported.

ELK POINT, S.D. Authorities announced Tuesday that the skeletal remains found inside a car last September belonged to two teens who had been missing for 40 years and that they had died in a car crash.

A former Tooele man has been charged for a rape that allegedly happened more than three years ago.According to a police report, in October 2010 a 17-year-old girl asked a friend's boyfriend, Jesus Antonio Cabrera, then 19, to come over and help her with her homework.

Daily News Donald Benson, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a La Luz woman in 2013, was sentenced to three years in prison Monday.

The state of Texas might take its history a little too seriously: On Monday, a Texas man was sentenced to 18 months in state prison for pissing on the Alamo.

A judge has given final approval to a $2 million state settlement with the family of a Lincoln woman who was struck and killed by a state prison van driven by an inmate.

Just after 6 p.m. Monday night the jury decided that McVay should be put to death by lethal injection.

A Fitchburg woman was sentenced to prison Monday after pleading guilty to stealing the identity of a retired nurse to get a job at a Fitchburg nursing home.

Eric John Knysz , the convicted murderer of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II, has attempted suicide and is "on a ventilator at this time," First Lt.

Therapy dogs are being trained at the Utah State Prison, thanks to a new program that many call a "three-fold rescue."

A new report says the cost of lost or stolen Ohio prison inmate property rose 28 percent over the past five years.

Two registered sex offenders arrested over the weekend on suspicion of killing four Southern California women over a five-month span have known each other since at least 2012, when they both cut their ankle bracelets and boarded a Greyhound bus to Las Vegas together using fake names.

Freda allegedly later stepped on Templeton's hands while he was handcuffed and sitting on the ground.

Two Clarksville men were arrested Friday after allegedly spraying a man in the face with pepper spray, hitting him with a pipe and a metal pan, and robbing him.

Police say a man killed in a house fire Friday was using a flammable liquid to light his woodstove.

The Vermont man accused of killing a California woman during a chance encounter in Littleton is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity.

Robert Rizzo faces up to eight years in federal prison when he is sentenced today for a tax evasion scheme designed to offset the $1.1 million he was illegally paying himself as Bell's city administrator.

Smith, now 34, was 13 when he beat 4-year-old Derrick Robie to death in a wooded area in Savona, Steuben County, in 1993.

In a forest clearing on the storm-swept Pacific coast near the California-Oregon border in the town of Crescent City, whose 7,394 inhabitants used to be lumberjacks and fishermen and now are prison guards, lies the infamous Pelican Bay State Prison, housing 2,753 amazing men the state calls the "worst of the worst" in conditions of incessant ... (more)

Gov. Nathan Deal signs Senate Bill 365 on Sunday during a special morning service at Antioch Baptist Church in Gainesville.