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A male inmate was found dead at the North East Regional Correctional Center in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The man was found unresponsive in his cell around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Vermont State Police said. He was given immediate medical attention but was later pronounced dead. His name is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin. This death is not…

Stewart’s pottery class is just one of the many crafty activities that she did while incarcerated.

The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in

A Massachusetts inmate who was being treated for coronavirus has died, authorities announced Thursday night. The Massachusetts Department of Correction said a man in his 50s who had underlying health conditions was undergoing treatment at a hospital for COVID-19 when he died. It was the first coronavirus-related fatality of a prisoner in Massachusetts. The man was not identified due to…

Two guards at a federal prison in Massachusetts have pleaded not guilty to charges resulting from what authorities called an assault on a “vulnerable inmate.” Seth Bourget, 39, of Woodstock, Connecticut, was arraigned Thursday in federal court in Boston on deprivation of rights charges. Bourget kneed an inmate in the head while the inmate was handcuffed and restrained in a…

An inmate who escaped in South Carolina 40 years ago was arrested in Delaware this week, NBC News reported.

The Vermont Department of Corrections says an inmate assaulted a correctional officer while two other inmates attacked a third inmate during an attempted unit takeover the Springfield prison. The department says the officers’ response on Tuesday morning was swift and professional, bringing a dangerous and escalating situation quickly under control.

The Vermont Department of Corrections say a 57-year-old inmate has died at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. The department said that Brian Deguise was pronounced dead at around 11 a.m. Monday. The cause of death has not been determined. Deguise had been housed in the prison’s general population.

A 15-year-old boy accused of stabbing his mother to death and who escaped from juvenile hall is back in custody.

Massachusetts prisons officials have for the first time moved a transgender inmate from a men’s prison to a women’s prison. Court filings show that the 54-year-old inmate, who has lived as a woman and received hormone therapy for decades, was transferred in September from MCI-Norfolk to the state women’s prison in Framingham.

The controversy over midazolam, a drug used during state executions of convicted inmates, rises following the execution of a fourth Arkansas inmate in eight days. Witnesses say Kenneth Williams, convicted for the 1999 murder of two people, moved and shook during his execution Thursday night.

The inmate was found two to three days after he died, the Medical Examiner found.

The search for an inmate who escaped from a Rhode Island detention center on Saturday continues.

NBC Boston has exclusive information that could bring authorities closer to the capture of an escaped inmate.

Three correctional peace officers are recovering after an inmate attacked them at a San Diego-area correctional facility, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said.

The aunt of escaped inmate Kamron Taylor, who was captured in Chicago late Friday night, was arrested on the suspicion that she helped her nephew escape a Kankakee jail facility earlier this week.

One of the four men convicted of participating in a string of racially motivated attacks in the mid-1970s that killed 14 people and injured seven in San Francisco was found dead in his cell, California prison officials said Friday.

An inmate who escaped into a Southern California nighborhood was found hiding in a hot tub and taken into custody, officials said.