State Prisons News

Thousands of prisoners in California are being released early or sent back to county jails to deal with the state's prison overcrowding problem.

An Albany area woman was arrested by State Police after allegedly attempting to bring marijuana into the Marcy Correctional Facility.

A woman whose 7-year-old sister was molested inside a thrift store nearly two years ago told a judge Monday that the girl remains so scarred emotionally she refuses to be alone.

Maryland corrections officials recently adopted technology that blocks contraband cellphone use at one prison facility and plan to use the technology at other facilities soon.

Idaho Supreme Court justices rejected a man's bid to have a misdemeanor drug conviction purged from his record, something he'd sought after he was blocked from a job as a state prison guard.

Ironing out Riverside County's fiscal priorities for 2013-14 is among the leading items on the Board of Supervisors' agenda tomorrow, when Supervisor John Tavaglione is slated to lead a discussion about resolving the county hospital's shortfall and assessing the value of merging agencies.

Robin Lunceford, the blunt and eccentric inmate who was the star witness in the trial of a woman accused of murdering Miami foster child Rilya Wilson, is free from prison.

It took more than a decade, but justice ultimately caught up with Nigel Morris. An island jury convicted Morris Wednesday in the sexual assault of a 19-year-old Irish woman on Nantucket in 2002, and the native of Jamaica was sentenced to five years in jail at the Cedar Junction state prison in Walpole, Mass.

A woman facing a minor misdemeanor citation for loud music is now in the Montgomery County Jail because she allegedly threatened to shoot a police officer and then resisted arrest.

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Quantrez Sawyer was a security officer in Detroit three years ago, but he wasn't earning enough to live outside his mother's house and support his three children.

Changi Airport , Southeast Asia's largest freight airfield, plans to attract more gold bars, tuna and vaccines to Singapore as it seeks to increase handling of high-value cargo to make up for slowing trade.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed three active death warrants in recent weeks, the most any governor has signed in more than two decades.

Curtis McCarty regains his freedom in May 2007 after more than 21 years in prison, almost all of it on Oklahoma's death row.

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A 56-year-old woman, who was a pretrial detainee at Oahu Community Correctional Center, was found dead in her cell Saturday morning.

Dallas police arrested inmate Jacob Hilton on Saturday at 4:45 p.m. following his escape from the Gaston Correctional Center early Saturday morning.

A Cartersville man remained hospitalized for severe burns Saturday after he allegedly set fire to his neighbor's house while knowing the man and his 3-year-old daughter were inside.

A National City man who killed his roommate after he made a disparaging remark was sentenced May 8 to 24 years in state prison.

A man who spent 18 years on Pennsylvania's Most Wanted list pleaded guilty on Friday to a 1994 murder in a South Bethlehem parking lot.