Tag: Prisons
Authorities find escaped federal inmate in Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal agents on Wednesday captured a prison inmate who escaped from a minimum security facility in Tennessee, the U.S. Marshals Service...
Coroner: Jail death of Black man changed to a homicide
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A coroner has changed the death certificate of a mentally ill Black man who died in a South Carolina jail earlier...
South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal
Days before what could be South Carolina's first execution in a decade, the two inmates scheduled to die this month under the state’s recently...
Convict sentenced to life without parole in official’s death
RIPLEY, Tenn. — A convicted felon was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in a deal with prosecutors in the rape and...
Deaths of 2 inmates at NW Indiana prison being investigated
WESTVILLE, Ind. — Authorities are investigating the recent deaths of two inmates at a northwest Indiana prison, state correction officials said.
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Prison break: 29 inmates escape federal lockups in 18 months
WASHINGTON — Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S. — and nearly half still have not...
Sheriff: Man wanted in baby’s death briefly escaped jail
LARGO, Fla. — A man accused of killing his infant son in Ohio escaped from a Florida jail but was captured within minutes, authorities...
Oklahoma prison inmates to begin receiving computer tablets
OKLAHOMA CITY — Inmates at an Oklahoma prison began receiving special computer tablets this week, as part of a Department of Corrections plan to...
Longest serving death row inmate in US resentenced to life
HOUSTON — The longest serving death row inmate in the U.S. was resentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after prosecutors in Texas concluded...
7 people charged in fatal beating of man at jail
INDIANAPOLIS — At least seven people have been charged with murder in the fatal beating of an inmate at the Marion County jail.
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