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Sex offender list closer to stripping job details

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:13:04 -0400

AUSTIN, Texas - An online registry of convicted sex offenders in Texas would no longer include employer information under a bill inching closer to Gov. Rick Perry's desk.

Inmate dies after stabbing in Ala. prison

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:57:04 -0400

BESSEMER, Alabama - Alabama Department of Corrections officials are probing a fatal stabbing at the Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer.

Prison inmate charged in fellow inmate's death

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:01:35 -0400

HELENA, Montana - A 38-year-old inmate at the Montana State Prison has pleaded not guilty to deliberate homicide in the death of another inmate last fall.

Del. inmate fails to return to corrections center

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:34:39 -0400

DOVER, Delaware - Correction officials are looking for an inmate they say failed to return to a community corrections center in Dover.

Mo. county considers online visits with inmates

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:10:08 -0400

OZARK, Missouri - A southwest Missouri county's plans to provide videoconferencing for jail inmates in an effort to improve safety for everyone, the county sheriff said.

Mich. works to get some inmates higher education

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:06:01 -0400

LANSING, Michigan - The Michigan Department of Corrections is working on several efforts to teach community college courses and vocational training in-house to a small number of inmates near parole.

Miss. probationer caught in central Florida

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:16:53 -0400

OCALA, Florida - Florida Highway Patrol officials have arrested a probation violator from Mississippi. They also arrested the woman they say helped him flee.

Marksville escapee captured

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:59:04 -0400

MARSKVILLE, Louisiana - A 21-year-old inmate who escaped Friday from a work detail in Marksville has been captured.

5 things to know in Florida for May 18

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:58:12 -0400

Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.

Inmate-release policies often surprise victims

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:26:14 -0400

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - It's been 17 years since Beth Williams became familiar with Iowa's sentencing laws.

Amendments add money for Nevada mental health

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:41:07 -0400

CARSON CITY, Nevada - Legislative money committees approved $6.4 million for new mental health programs Saturday to fund a home visit pilot program, community interaction services and more beds for mentally ill inmates at a northern Nevada psychiatric hospital.

Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:50:29 -0400

INDIANAPOLIS - Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.

Imprisoned Ohio Amish complain about schooling

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:38:37 -0400

CLEVELAND - Some of the Amish sentenced in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio are upset with federal prison education requirements.

Inmate charged with killing cellmate in 2011

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:31:45 -0400

STERLING, Colorado - An inmate accused of beating and strangling his cellmate at the Sterling Correctional Facility has been charged with second-degree murder.

Escaped prisoner apprehended in Denver

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:57:06 -0400

DENVER - A convict who walked away from a minimum security facility a month age has been apprehended in Denver.

Escaped Alabama inmate recaptured

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:38:30 -0400

GADSDEN, Alabama - Authorities in eastern Alabama say a man who escaped the Etowah County Detention Center has been recaptured.

Mourners gather to remember Malcolm X's grandson

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:27 -0400

OAKLAND, California - Hundreds gathered Friday to remember the late grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X as mourners said Malcolm Shabazz was well on his way to cementing his own legacy.

Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:13:04 -0400

PETARE, Venezuela - Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.

Mo. bill would let sheriffs collect jail fees

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:35 -0400

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri - Missouri lawmakers have passed a measure that would allow county sheriffs to divert income tax refunds and lottery winnings to pay jail debts.

Escaped Ky. prison inmate caught in Kingsport

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:17:25 -0400

KINGSPORT, Tennessee - An inmate who escaped from a Kentucky prison more than two years ago has been caught in Kingsport, Tennessee

Man gets community corrections in hit-and-run

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:36:48 -0400

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colorado - Prosecutors are upset after an Idaho Springs man who pleaded guilty after a hit-and-run accident that severely injured the victim and ended in a stand-off with authorities was sentenced to four years in a community corrections program.

Federal inmate facing escape charge in Illinois

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:56:09 -0400

BENTON, Illinois - A convicted Iowa bank robber serving a roughly six-year sentence at a federal prison camp in southern Illinois is accused of trying to escape.

Authorities searching for inmate accused of escape

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:52:24 -0400

GADSDEN, Alabama - Sheriff's officials in Etowah County are searching for an inmate after they say he escaped from the county detention center.

Indonesia executes 3 inmates on prison island

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:16:34 -0400

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia has executed three death row inmates who were convicted of mutilating a man and murdering a family.

Inmate killed at Kern Ca. prison, cellmate suspect

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:41:41 -0400

DELANO, California - Corrections officials are investigating the death of a California Prison inmate. They say the death was a homicide and the man's cellmate is the suspect.