State Prisons News

Inmates at the Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia. The jail has one of the highest rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court on Thursday, May 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.

A Manchester Township man was charged with the robbery and felony murder of a Point Pleasant man found in the backyard of a Long Branch home, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Friday.

An Allentown man could spend up to 15 years in state prison for shooting and wounding his neighbor three times during an argument related to a marijuana deal last year.

The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate entered what could be its final stage this week, when the Montana Supreme Court ordered him back to prison and took away his brief taste of normal life.

David M. Austin Jr., 27, of 5548 Webster Road, Brocton, was sentenced to 3 years in state prison with five years post-release supervision for second-degree burglary.

More than one of every 10 women at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility claim staff members sexually assaulted them, according to a national study.

The White House's release of nearly 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans demanding more... President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to turn the tables on Republicans who have criticized his administration's response to last year's ... (more)

An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo last fall and brutally beating to death one of two Patas monkeys has been ordered to spend up to a year in a treatment program at a state prison.

An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in state prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program.

An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in state prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program.

Otisfield's first firetruck, a 1938 Chevrolet, 500-gallon pumper, shown here, is slated to be restored by pre-release prisoners at the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren.

As the weather finally warms up, you are probably seeing more and more kids on bikes, and ATVs.

Though he's been caught after a manhunt across Concord, it remains a mystery this evening why Freddie Deya fled from his minimum security work release Tuesday morning in Concord Center .

A prison inmate faces an additional 20 years in prison after a DuPage County jury found him guilty Tuesday of trying to have two county officials killed.

It all started at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in April. Since then, a number of sexual assault victims have come forward; all of them pointing the finger at two Beatrice men.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama --- A federal judge has set trials in June and July for two former state prison employees accused in the beating death of an inmate.

A guard walks through the gates during a tour of the Centennial South Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City in 2012.

A jury has begun deliberating whether to impose the death penalty on a Washington prison inmate who strangled a guard.

A Livermore software engineer was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in state prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction for the stabbing death of another man in a road rage incident in Livermore two years ago.