A hostage situation has ended at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City after an inmate assaulted a correctional officer and took another correctional employee hostage.
Curtis Michael Allgier, 31, is an inmate at Utah State Prison who is infamous for his tattooed covered face -- tattoos that include swastikas and Aryan gang-related words and images.
A Santa Rosa man who was convicted of brutally stabbing his girlfriend and hiding her body in a toy box in their apartment died Friday evening after a suicide attempt at San Quentin State Prison on Aug. 23.
Officials said inmate Marcia Powell was kept in an outdoor cage for hours. She didn't survive, and now the Maricopa County Attorney's Office has decided not to prosecute the people who put her there.
A Sharptown man accused of assaulting a law enforcement officer has appealed his conviction, moving the case and evidence that tells a different story to the county's highest trial court.
A federal judge has ruled that inmates have no First Amendment rights to grow a beard, rejecting the claim of an orthodox Jew who claimed prison policy banning facial hair longer than a quarter-inch violated his constitutional rights.
A 70-year-old inmate who was sentenced to death in 1989 for murdering a woman after breaking into her home in Calaveras County hanged himself in his cell at San Quentin State Prison over the weekend, less than a week after a judge commuted his sentence to life without parole because of mental retardation.
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