State Prisons News

A Benner state prison inmate faces assault and arson charges after police say he started a fire in his cell and attacked an officer.

California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.

Clarksville Police discovered the body of 7-month-old Astrid Johnson in the home early Friday morning and charged her Clarksville mother, Stefany Paige Johnson, 24, with criminal homicide later in the day, according to police spokeswoman Natalie Hall.

As lawmakers head into their last week of the 2014 legislative session, here's a look at some of the top issues coming up: Negotiations over where to funnel state money in the next fiscal year have been sputtering.

Isaiah Pleasant, 21, of Albany, was found guilty of one felony count of Robbery, and one felony Count of Strangulation in Albany County Supreme Court on Friday.

Despite a killing at the Maine State Prison in Warren last week in which one inmate is charged with tying up another inmate and stabbing him 87 times, the commissioner of the Department of Corrections said Friday that Maine's correctional facilities are safer now than they've ever been.

Lil Boosie isn't waiting to give fans some new music. The rapper was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary on Wednesday after serving time for felony drug charges.

An inmate was shot in the hand Friday morning when a correctional officer tried to stop him from beating an unconscious man at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, officials said.

A man charged in 2010 with six counts of rape of a child after a joint investigation involving the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and Chattanooga Police Department has been sentenced to 27 years in state prison.

BOISE, Idaho - The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School."

Following a nearly two-year investigation that began as Dewey & LeBoeuf spiraled toward death, its former chairman, Steven Davis; its former executive director, Stephen DiCarmine; and its ex-chief financial officer, Joel Sanders, were accused Thursday of "concocting and overseeing a massive effort to cook the books" at the firm.

An Arizona Department of Corrections Officer was assaulted by an inmate at Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis in Buckeye Thursday, authorities said.

The Maine State Prison inmate who is accused of stabbing another inmate to death last week faced a judge today in Rockland via video from the prison.

An inmate who killed a Colorado prison guard pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Thursday to avoid the death penalty.

Sarah Jo Pender was convicted along with her former boyfriend, Richard Hull, of murdering their roommates Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman on Oct. 24, 2000, in Indiana.

A 41-year-old ex-convict from Utah could be eligible for parole almost immediately after being sentenced Wednesday to 12 to 30 months in Nevada state prison for a shooting that left him and a Mesquite police officer wounded almost a year ago.

Last summer, four alleged leaders of rival prison gangs worked together to coordinate a hunger strike at California's Pelican Bay State Prison.

An eastern Kentucky woman convicted of killing her husband by poisoning him with antifreeze is set to appear before the parole board later this month.

A suspended Wyoming Borough police officer accused of having sex with four teenage girls has pleaded guilty and agreed to serve two to four years in state prison.

A paroled West Scranton teen who served less than a year in county jail for causing the death of a toddler two years ago added time to his original sentence after nearly running over a railroad officer in April.