Indiana State Prison News

11. He will probably have clemency hearings in coming weeks. But first: A visit with Oprah.

A former Gary elementary school teacher was placed on probation for one year after he admitted he threw a basketball at a student and struck an 11-year-old boy in the head.

An Indiana State Prison inmate has been charged with intimidation after he wrote a letter to Lake Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Tavitas threatening a magistrate who heard the inmate's civil case.

Indiana State Prison officials are investigating an attack on a worker by prisoners, according to a spokeswoman.

Orville Lynn Majors walks down the steps of the Clay County Courthouse October 1999.

Eight men previously incarcerated at the Putnamville Correctional Facility were officially charged Tuesday for their roles in an Aug.

A man accused of shooting at another man on Grove Street in Lafayette has been arrested in Illinois.A 50-year-old Ronald Lampitok was arrested Friday night in Coles County, Illinois, according to Lafayette Police detective BT Brown.A A A A Lampitok is accused of firing two shots at a jogger on September 10.A He bonded out of jail the same day, and ...

The Indiana Department of Correction has fired three employees and suspended a fourth in connection with the escape of three inmates from a maximum-security prison in July.

Two employees were fired and one resigned as a result of an investigation into how three inmates escaped from the Indiana State Prison in July.

Just because Mark Allen Wisehart is on Indiana's death row doesn't mean he can't be in cyberspace.

The recent news that the three inmates who escaped from the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City last month funded their getaway with cash from selling tobacco, drugs, and cell phones didn't come as a surprise to me.

Three inmates who escaped from the Indiana State Prison here a month ago had money with them for their trip.

Officials revoked the parole of a convicted killer who admitted visiting Michigan City the day before three inmates he knew escaped from the Indiana State Prison.

The Indiana Parole Board will hold a hearing Thursday to determine whether to revoke the parole of a convicted killer who admitted visiting Michigan City the day before three inmates he knew escaped from the Indiana State Prison.

Convicted rapist Lance Battreal and convicted murderers Mark Booher and Charles Smith made their way through hundreds of yards of utility tunnels beneath the Civil War-era structure before emerging through a manhole cover onto a nearby street.

Convicted rapist Lance Battreal and convicted murderers Mark Booher and Charles Smith made their way through hundreds of yards of utility tunnels beneath the Civil War-era structure before emerging through a manhole cover onto a nearby street.

Convicted rapist Lance Battreal and convicted murderers Mark Booher and Charles Smith made their way through hundreds of yards of utility tunnels beneath the Civil War-era structure before emerging through a manhole cover onto a nearby street.

Convicted rapist Lance Battreal and convicted murderers Mark Booher and Charles Smith made their way through hundreds of yards of utility tunnels beneath the Civil War-era structure before emerging through a manhole cover onto a nearby street.

Convicted rapist Lance Battreal and convicted murderers Mark Booher and Charles Smith made their way through hundreds of yards of utility tunnels beneath the Civil War-era structure before emerging through a manhole cover onto a nearby street.

Police captured a second escapee from the Indiana State Prison as he slept in his mother's southern Indiana home.