The incident happened in November of 2020 at the Mount Olive Correctional Center.
A man was sentenced to 15 more years in prison for killing a fellow inmate at United States Penitentiary Hazelton with a handmade weapon in 2015.
The estranged husband of a 57-year-old woman, who had a protection from abuse order against him, is accused of killing her inside her home in the Wyndmoor section of Springfield Township, Montgomery County.
(FOX40.COM) — Officials are investigating the death of an inmate at a state prison in Sacramento County after several guards pinned him to the ground. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, staff at California State Prison-Sacramento, located in Folsom, responded to a "disturbance in a housing unit" on April 12 around 6:55 []
Four nonprofit prisoner-rights groups filed a complaint Monday in an Austin federal court alleging that Texas prisons' widespread lack of air conditioning violates the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The organizations joined a lawsuit filed last summer by Bernie Tiede, an inmate who argues he suffered an acute medical crisis after being housed in a Huntsville cell where temperatures exceeded 110 degrees. Tiede, a convicted murderer who served as inspiration for the...
Animal rights advocates are calling for change within the Virginia Department of Corrections weeks after Rivan, a K9 at Sussex I State Prison, was brutally killed by incarcerated gang members.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Wednesday, charging Jaremy Smith with the murder of New Mexico State Police Officer Justin Hare. The indictment charges Smith, 33, of South Carolina, with carjacking resulting in death, causing death by the discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, kidnapping resulting in []
A Whitemarsh Township woman was sent to prison for leaving the scene, not rendering aid and not calling 911, after she struck and killed a man who was crossing a township roadway.
ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. (WBTW) -- Robeson County deputies have found the truck of a man wanted in the killing of the mother of his two children, Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said on Facebook. Scotti Tyler, 38, is facing charges of first-degree murder and nine counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling. The victim, Lydia []
Candidates running for Fulton County Sheriff told voters at an ACLU of Georgia "Know Your Sheriff" town hall event on Tuesday they plan to improve prison conditions through a combination of additional staff, increased scrutiny of incoming inmates, and upgraded housing. Suggestions come in the wake of a slew of deaths in the county's prison system. As part of the event, candidates completed a questionnaire to inform voters about their position on issues. One question asked, "Since 2022, over 20...
Ben Cousins has opened up about his experience in prison in a rare interview on Wednesday.
The state’s attorney has declined to file charges in connection with three in-custody deaths of McHenry County Jail inmates. A fourth inmate death is still under investigation. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday afternoon that they recently received the final investigations of the in-custody inmate deaths of Sean Grendel, Randy Little and Timothy Mumford. […]