State Prisons News

A New Jersey woman who admitted punching a 22-month-old girl she was baby-sitting , causing the child's death, has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison.

An Indiana prison no longer serves lunches to inmates on Fridays and weekends in what it says is an efficiency move designed to free up more time for classes and recreation.

A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him.

Republican members of Congress from Illinois have a few questions for Gov. Pat Quinn about possibly using a state prison to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

An Ecuadorean immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a 7-year-old Peekskill girl told the girl's father that she was a "seductress" who had fallen in love with him, a Westchester County prosecutor said today.

An assault at the Henry Hill Correctional Center is resulting in a lockdown at the Illinois Department of Corrections facility.

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says he backs a proposal to move terrorism detainees from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to an Illinois prison.

The state Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $4 million to a 24-year-old man who suffered disabling injuries in an attack by a cellmate in the state prison at Shelton.

A state prison inmate serving time at a Sheboygan jail was charged Wednesday after allegedly attacking a local inmate who he said used racial slurs and threw urine on him.

Officials are trying to determine why a 24-year-old South Bend man facing a rape charge never served a two-year prison sentence in another case.

Rep. Don Manzullo, an opponent of the "Illinois Gitmo" plan, yesterday qualified remarks he made about Islam he made during an interview on WREX this week.

Gov. Pat Quinn says a deal to sell a prison in northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees "probably'' will happen.

A Kentucky death row inmate, who once played a role in a controversial clothing advertising campaign featuring condemned inmates, has died 27 years after being sentenced to death.

A man who took hostages at one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's New Hampshire presidential campaign offices in 2007 is expected to be released from state prison.

Once federal officials said they might move terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, to a nearly empty prison here, residents of this faded rural village began debating what they should fear most - the suspects or the downward spiral of the economy here.

As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.

A man charged with killing six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a Washington state shooting rampage last year has pleaded guilty.

The Indiana Parole Board has canceled its review of the death sentence faced by a man convicted of the 1994 slayings of his estranged wife and two of her relatives in Evansville.

A former Army counterintelligence worker from Maryland is set to die by electrocution unless Gov.

Share + Nov 16, 2009 11:03 pm US/Eastern BARTON, Md. 1 of 1 Inmates at the Western Correctional Institution will begin clearing a three-mile section of a hiking trail that will lead to a memorial of the crew of a B-52 that crashed.