Man Convicted Of Killing Cop As Teen Gets Shorter Sentence
The life sentence of a Detroit man who has spent 42 years in prison has been reduced by a judge.
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The life sentence of a Detroit man who has spent 42 years in prison has been reduced by a judge.
Santana Was Trying To Get A Loaded Gun Onto A Plane At A New York Area Airport
An Indian man living in the U.S. on a work visa who sexually assaulted a sleeping passenger on a Spirit Airlines Flight was sentenced to 9 years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman during an overnight flight to Detroit.
Officials say an itchy rash has spread to more inmates at Michigan's only prison for women.
Dozens of Iowa inmates are challenging a new law that bans sexually explicit material in the state's nine prisons.
In less than 24 hours, prison inmates are threatening a labor and hunger strike.
The Michigan Department of Corrections plans to close the Ojibway Correctional Facility in the western Upper Peninsula.
Not even six months into his sentence at a high-security federal prison, inmates have reported assaulted Larry Nassar, which may cause him to be moved to another facility, according to reports.
Disgraced ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been moved from a federal prison in Oklahoma to a federal detention center in Philadelphia.
A former NAACP leader in Washington state whose life unraveled after she was exposed as a white woman pretending to be black has been charged with welfare fraud.
An Indiana man accused in an attack on a Michigan State Police trooper has been sentenced to 15 to 50 years in prison.
The Arkansas Department of Correction said Monday in a statement that the inmates took the keys during recreation call at the Maximum Security Unit in Tucker, 30 miles southeast of Little Rock.
The North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin currently houses 236 inmates from Vermont.
Other bills would expedite medical commutation hearings and house 17- to -22-year-old inmates together instead of with older adults.
Bills advancing in Michigan's Legislature would stop automatically treating 17-year-old criminal offenders as adults and instead put them in the juvenile justice system.
The prison just outside of Jackson is nowhere near a playground or private residence.
Police say such finds are made "from time to time."
Being away from your loved ones is always tough during the holidays — especially if one of them is in prison.
He's also accused of accepting money to try to get a prisoner transferred.
Prison Legal News filed a federal lawsuit in June, saying the jail's policy amounted to censorship of its monthly journal and other correspondence.
A Florida-based company is the new meal supplier for about 43,000 state inmates.
"The prison population, over 50 percent are either drug addicted or chronically mentally ill -- they get very limited treatment."
Laurel Kelly Young, an appellate attorney, said some lawyers push their young clients toward a guilty plea.
Gov. Rick Snyder said that he wants prison inmates to get skills assessments and job training before they are released as part of an overhaul of Michigan's criminal justice system.
The Corrections Department claims other prisoners will demand a special mattress if Boone can have one.
