Criminals to heroes: California penal system trains inmates to be firefighters
Fire camps teach the incarcerated real life skills and gives them a new lease on life.
Former corrections officer sentenced on federal drug charges
A former corrections officer working in MCI-Norfolk was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in federal prison for trying to smuggle heroin into the prison for inmates.
Ronald P. McGinn, 40, of Bridgewater, also...
Wesley Snipes tells Larry King that he is nervous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNSn0uKCWNc
Actor Wesley Snipes, 48, has reported to a federal prison in Pennsylvania to begin serving a three-year sentence for failing to file his taxes. Snipes was convicted...
Police capture escaped prisoner in Salem
Several law enforcement agencies, including Massachusetts State Police units searched for and captured a prisoner who briefly escaped from Salem District Court Monday.
Karl Hackney is awaiting trial on gun a...
Life sentence given in Austrian incest case
An Austrian court judge sentenced Josef Fritzl to life in prison Thursday, for allowing the child he fathered with his enslaved daughter to die without receiving any medical attention or aid, the New York Times reports.
Murder suspects escape from Saskatchewan prison
Six high-risk Canadian prisoners, four of whom were facing murder charges, escaped from a maximum security prison in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan last month. How?
Iraq shoe thrower sentenced
Do you remember that Iraqi guy who threw his shoes at President Bush? Remember how he was lauded as a national hero? Well, now he's going to prison.
Obama to close Gitmo as soon as possible
President-elect O bama plans to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office, to show his disapproval of Bush's approach to the war on terror and effectively "change" American politics, say two officials close to the transition, according to CNN.
