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A recent inmate fight at the John Latorraca Correctional Center left several inmates injured and two dorms on lockdown.

An inmate serving time for robbing a Portland check-cashing store and severely beating a clerk was found unresponsive in his cell at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario, Ore.

A federal inmate serving time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley has been sentenced to eight years in prison for separate assaults on corrections officers.

A Washington County Detention Center inmate confessed that he faked a claim that another inmate raped him last week, Sheriff Ed Graybeal announced Thursday in a news release.

At 10:00 a.m. this morning, Complex Two at Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI) was put on lockdown status after an inmate was found unresponsive in his cell.

A prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates pulled a fast one on state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.

Prison officials said four officers at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown were injured while trying to restrain an inmate.

Already serving state prison time in two other cases, a former East Stroudsburg man pleaded guilty Tuesday to punching a Monroe County Correctional Facility guard and was immediately sentenced to six months to two years in state prison.

The old New Mexico state penitentiary in Santa Fe, the scene of the worst prison riot in U. S. history, will start public tours Thursday on the 32nd anniversary of the place some called hell.

An inmate who has acknowledged killing a South Dakota prison guard in a failed escape attempt is expected to make a statement Thursday during the last day of his pre-sentencing hearing.