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Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said that so far investigators have listened to a little more than half of the 949 calls that Vicky White and Casey White made to each other from August 2021 to February, while he was in prison at the William Donaldson Correctional Facility. The pair weren’t related.

A few states have been amending or repealing “pay-to-stay” laws that require former prisoners to reimburse states for the cost of their jail stays, sometimes at daily rates exceeding what they would have paid to stay in a luxury hotel.

The United States’ ongoing labor shortage is bad for employers but presents an opportunity for workers who often could not find jobs in rosier economic times: ex-prisoners.

Another inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center wrote in a letter submitted to the court that Maxwell also volunteered to teach English and help others get GED certificates.

The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia entered the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, on Friday.

A former Massachusetts mayor convicted of corruption charges has reported to federal prison after a judge rejected his latest request for a delay. The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia entered the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, on Friday as required in order to begin a six-year sentence. The medium security prison,…

Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia, who was supposed to report to a federal medium security prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, on Friday, will instead be required to report on April 5

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

In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free

A federal judge sentenced former Massachusetts state Rep. David Nangle to 15 months in prison on Wednesday after the Lowell Democrat pleaded guilty earlier this year to illegally using campaign funds. He used the money to fund a lifestyle that included golf club memberships and casino trips to Connecticut and lying to banks about his debt to obtain mortgages and…

Mack is best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville.”

Michael Coyne, NECN legal analyst, explains how Bill Cosby’s conviction was overturned and the “terrible” agreement that led to it.

Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S., and nearly half still have not been caught

After Prince Philip’s death last week at age 99, politicians and world leaders rushed to eulogize his lifetime of service to his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, and to the British nation

Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died early Wednesday in a federal prison

Illinois has agreed to the early release of some low- to medium-risk inmates as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit over the coronavirus

A New York auction house is selling notorious mobster Whitey Bulger’s prison letters and pictures. We took a closer look at his words.

The outbreak of COVID-19 at the Vermont prison in Newport is continuing with 21 new cases, the Department of Corrections reported on Monday. Nineteen of the new cases are among inmates at the Northern Vermont Correctional Facility and two among staff members. There are currently 37 positive inmate cases and six positive staff cases at the facility. The department says…

Prison guards are refusing coronavirus vaccines at alarming rates

The NBC10 Investigators have learned the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance placed holds on unemployment benefits for around 1,700 people who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance during a period while they were apparently incarcerated.