State Prisons News

The medium-security Maryland Correctional Training Center near Hagerstown is becoming the fourth state prison where inmates who served in the military help train service dogs for disabled veterans.

Federal prosecutors say two former correctional officers have been sentenced for their roles in the beating of an inmate at the Roxbury Correctional Institution near Hagerstown.

The light touch of a paint roller is enough to dislodge a chunk of plaster from the crumbling walls of Hinchliffe Stadium.

Former Morgan County Commissioner Stacy George of Baileyton reported that his only income was his paycheck as a correctional officer in a state prison.

After he was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, Cornealious Anderson was sentenced to 13 years behind bars and told to await instructions on when and where to report to prison.

This undated photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Cornealious Anderson.

The former city manager of Bell was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison and ordered to make restitution of $8.8 million in a corruption scheme that nearly bankrupted the small, blue-collar city.

The former city manager of Bell, Calif., has been sentenced to 12 years in state prison for a corruption scheme that nearly bankrupted the small city just outside Los Angeles.

Iowa officials are awaiting a fingerprint check to confirm that a man being held in Waterloo is a fugitive of more than 40 years from North Carolina.

Closing arguments were held in the murder trial of an Iraqi immigrant charged with beating to death his wife in their Southern California home -- an attack that police at first suspected was a hate crime.

Each wants the Alaska Department of Corrections to explain how and why two young people -- one sick with mental illness, the other with severe alcoholism -- died in their jail cells within a week of each other this month.

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.