State Prisons News

A Topeka man who was drunk when his speeding car crashed and killed a 15-year-old passenger has been sentenced to 10 years and three months in state prison.

A man who held a San Rafael woman captive for a weekend of violent abuse was sentenced Friday to 22 years and eight months in state prison.

Michael Carr, one of the four accused of killing their cellmates over a two-year period at Sterling Correctional Facility, was formally charged with second degree murder Thursday in Logan County District Court.

Lisa Hamm, center, sister of slain Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl, reacts after a Snohomish County jury decided to recommend the death penalty for Biendl's killer, Byron Scherf.

A Chinese-born Canadian citizen is being held on $100,000 bail in the Jefferson County Jail after he was charged with allegedly stalking and harassing the family of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence.

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.