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Despite all the publicity over five previous cases of Delaware County prison inmates wrongfully released,
fumbled paperwork or staff oversight errors resulted this week in a sixth wrongful release.

Indiana State Police and the Warrick County Coroner are looking in to the death of an inmate at the Warrick County jail.

A federal judge has declared the Virginia prison system's policy on inmates' access to literature unconstitutional.

The federal Bureau of Prisons has long recognized a potential problem with its handling of furloughs of inmates for medical treatment: nobody has the job of notifying crime victims and witnesses that an inmate is being temporarily released.

A hostage situation has ended at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City after an inmate assaulted a correctional officer and took another correctional employee hostage.

Curtis Michael Allgier, 31, is an inmate at Utah State Prison who is infamous for his tattooed covered face -- tattoos that include swastikas and Aryan gang-related words and images.

A Santa Rosa man who was convicted of brutally stabbing his girlfriend and hiding her body in a toy box in their apartment died Friday evening after a suicide attempt at San Quentin State Prison on Aug. 23.

A second South Carolina sheriff's has been fired as officials investigate the beating of an inmate in a county jail.

Officials said inmate Marcia Powell was kept in an outdoor cage for hours. She didn't survive, and now the Maricopa County Attorney's Office has decided not to prosecute the people who put her there.

A 26-year-old Dauphin County Prison inmate died Tuesday morning of bacterial meningitis, according to Dauphin County Coroner Graham Hetrick.