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Inmate gets 72 months after spitting, threatening judge

Jesse Williams pleaded no contest to two counts of throwing or expelling a bodily substance and one count of threats to a judge

January 24, 2014 11:54 AM

Idaho county jail ready after $1.2M renovation

The facility, built in 1987, now has an updated booking area, security system and master control room

January 24, 2014 11:45 AM

Man charged with helping inmate escape

Gave inmate a change of clothes and a ride

January 24, 2014 11:41 AM

Inmate’s term for CO assaults to be reduced

Attorney: “It was learned that the nuances of the complicated sentencing laws demand that certain of his sentences be served concurrently, while others must be served consecutively”

January 24, 2014 04:47 AM

Wisc. to spend half million renovating prison towers

Will improve the heating, insulation and update the windows and doors

January 24, 2014 03:49 AM

Ark. DOC ready to begin plans for a new prison

With the unanimous vote the board plans on spending $5 to $6 million in the next year to make plans for the building of a 1,000 bed prison

January 24, 2014 03:43 AM

Ore. inmates take advantage of staff complacency to try escapes

One inmate broke windows, drilled out a door lock, broke into metal tool cages, bashed a hole in the laundry wall, and more overnight without being noticed

January 24, 2014 01:57 AM

Inmate sends suspicious powder to Nev. Supreme Court

Powder was initially identified as anthrax but later deemed not hazardous

January 22, 2014 04:11 AM

Mexican national’s lawyers want execution halted

Edgar Arias Tamayo, 46, was set for lethal injection Wednesday for the January 1994 slaying of Guy Gaddis, 24

January 22, 2014 04:01 AM

Mo. legislators want answers on death penalty

Claims say DOC used unlicensed pharmacy to make lethal injection drugs and executed prisoner before appeals ran out

January 21, 2014 03:47 AM