The Department of Corrections identified Ricky Wassenaar, a violent repeat offender serving 16 life sentences for a 2004 attempted prison escape that turned into a hostage crisis, as the sole ...

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After a nearly three-year legal battle, a Tennessee civil rights attorney will no longer be gagged from criticizing a private prison. The local federal court has scrapped a rule that restricted ...

The expansion will include the building of new facilities as well as accommodation for more prisoners A prison in Bridgend could expand to house another 345 inmates, with an increase of 160 staff.

The Orleans County Sheriff's Office on Friday night released security video of the extraordinary escape, which shows the inmates sprinting out of the prison and then traversing the freeway.

A shocking jailbreak at the Orleans Parish Justice Center saw ten inmates escape through a small hole, leaving taunting graffiti behind. The incident, discovered during a morning headcount ...

Their escape, now captured on surveillance video ... a.m., making their way into a nearby neighborhood in the dark. The prison staff didn’t realize the inmates were missing until a routine ...

Where were they? What were they doing in order for them to escape like that?” said a mother who left New Orleans out of safety concerns when she heard about the prison break. “It’s like we ...

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The escape began shortly after midnight, at approximately 12:22 a.m., when the group manipulated a cell door mechanism, gaining access to a neighboring cell. From there, they slipped through a ...

(WPBN/WGTU) -- Nicholas Schram, 26, will spend up to five years in prison for a crash that took ... when investigators said a truck was in his lane on County Road 633. The truck hit DeKuiper's ...