State Prisons News

Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and district attorneys around Oregon are being saddled with extra costs and workload from having to conduct thousands of resentencing reviews.

A Rockland judge today sentenced a county businessman to state prison and ordered him to pay $226,000 for stealing ownership of a house he had co-owned with his live-in girlfriend.

A sexually violent predator reintegrated into the community in April following years of treatment at a mental hospital was arrested for violating terms and conditions of his release, authorities said Friday.

Three men who videotaped their gang-rape of an unconscious 18-year-old woman in a Tustin motel room have been sentenced to six years each in state prison.

Four guards at a maximum security state prison in Massachusetts have been injured by an inmate wielding a homemade weapon.

T hey were angry about the food. A guard at a Kentucky prison says that was the main reason inmates rioted and set fire to buildings in August.

A woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with abusing the 911 emergency system for a second time.

A North Adams woman has been sentenced to up to six years in state prison for selling a powerful prescription painkiller to a friend who later overdosed and died.

Alan Jones of Palermo was convicted in September of killing Erin Maxwell. He faces a maximum of 25 years to life in state prison at sentencing Friday morning.

The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation has placed Dorchester Academy in Liberty County on its list of most endangered places in the state.

One correction officer was slashed in the throat and another sustained a stab wound on his cheek after an inmate became enraged because he was assigned to double bunk with another prisoner in an orientation housing unit at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, said Steve Kenneway, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers ...

The department says in a news release that 75-year-old Leland Kagy died Tuesday morning at the state prison in Springfield.

About 50 corrections officers are participating today in an 'informational picket' outside Mansfield Correctional Institution.

A Tennessee woman was arrested after she repeatedly made nonemergency calls to the city's 911 system, Clarksville police said.

Lawyers for convicted Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad have asked the Supreme Court to block next week's scheduled execution.

T.R. Knight From LATimes.com: On Aug. 17, 1915, Leo Frank, a Cornell-educated Jewish industrialist, was lynched just outside Atlanta.

A federal judge has approved a settlement ending a prison lawsuit filed by Pamela Smart, who is serving a life sentence in one of New Hampshire's most notorious murders.

Officials at Fort Monroe say experts have unearthed an 11-foot-long cannon from the 1860s as part of a four-month munitions probe.

State prison officials have asked for about 15,000 doses of swine flu vaccine, but state health officials say none has been provided and there are no plans to do so yet.

MADISON The state moved 91 juvenile prisoners -- all girls -- from Indianapolis to the new Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility in Jefferson County on Tuesday as part of a larger plan to restructure Indiana prisons and relieve overcrowding.