Maximum Security News

You've probably heard of prison inmates making license plates. But at Indiana State Prison, they're making something different -- very different.

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:12 p.m. Locked up in "the most filthy and unsafe conditions" alongside Sri Lankan "murderers and heroin dealers," former Sarasota hostess Marian Morgan still manages to keep up with her correspondence.

"Souza Baranowski is a nightmare. It's a powder keg," said Leslie Walker, executive director of Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services.

The same day a Chicago Sun-Times story hit the streets saying Cook County Jail doors don't work, inmates broke free from their cells and stabbed a rival gang member, authorities said Thursday.

SHERWIN WILSON, the man accused of killing Peter Garcia in the yard of the Rio Claro Magistrates' Court on October 19, was yesterday afforded heavily armed police protection when he made his first appearance to answer that charge in the San Fernando Magistrates' Court.

READY FOR ANYTHING: Heavily armed police officers outside the San Fernando Magistrates' Court yesterday during the appearance of Sherwin Shawn Wilson .

Grayson County commissioners approved Monday two plans to study the county jail.

More than 90 unsolved homicide case files are in the Guam Police Department's archives, each waiting to be cracked and closure brought to victims' families.

A Tennessee Department of Correction official confirms Lemaricus Davidson arrived at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution on Friday night on death row.

Convicted killer Letalvis Cobbins will soon be moved to a maximum security prison, according to State Sen.

Lemaricus Davidson, sentented to the death penalty by a Knox County jury on Friday for the murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, has arrived at a maximum security prison in Nashville.

The first defendant convicted in the carjacking and killing of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom will be changing cells from medium to maximum security, state authorities said today.

Idahoa TMs maximum security prison marked its 20th anniversary on Thursday, with two of its units sitting vacant.

Government has decided to establish an Immigration Detention Centre to house illegal immigrants, National Security Minister Martin Joseph said at yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann's. Joseph said there were currently 96 illegal immigrants being detained.

Roger Wayne Battle, the local leader of the Traveling Vice Lords who was indicted on federal charges Tuesday, was on the Metro police gang unit's radar as early as 2005.

When Grayson County commissioners decided Monday to accept a free jail assessment from Hall-Mills, it was not the only jail related decision on their plate.

A white supremacist with lighting bolts on his neck and a spiked Mohawk hairstyle took the witness stand against the advice of his lawyer Tuesday and told a jury "it doesn't matter" if he gets the death penalty or life in prison.

Thomas Cholmondeley, the white Kenyan aristocrat jailed in May for killing a black poacher, was on Friday freed three months ahead of the end of his eight month sentence.

A man crossing Interstate 20 in west Shreveport late Wednesday was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer rig, Shreveport police say.

October 21st, 2009 @ 10:00a.m. Relatives of murder accused Peter Garcia are reporting that there was a plan to kill him.