A former Massachusetts state employee and a man already incarcerated in federal prison were charged in connection with the possession and distribution of a synthetic drug.

“CDCR and the corrections budget in general has been a black hole, a money pit,” said Brian Kaneda, CURB’s deputy director. “No matter how much savings we’re getting from prison closures, they won’t be effective in supporting our community unless they’re reinvested back where they need it most.”

Stephanie Ledon and Karim Zepeda-Martinez have never met, but he’ll likely always stand out in her mind; she watched him die from a few feet away, as a meth ‘bamboozle’ plot went

Congressman Pete Stauber says that the Federal Prison Camp in Duluth will stay open. The decision comes after William Marshall, President Trump’s newly appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, visited the facility the week prior. Rep. Stauber was in attendance.

Jose Morales, 48, was convicted by a jury of murder and evidence tampering in Christine Holloway​'s killing. Their baby daughter, Vanessa, disappeared at the time and remains missing.

A Saginaw artist who sent illicit sexualized images of children across the internet will now serve time in prison. Anthony D. “Birdie” Rendon, 30, on Monday, July 14, appeared before Circuit Judge Manvel Trice III for sentencing.

Townsend was arrested in 1997 in connection with a break-in in Dinkytown, Minneapolis, and convicted in 1998 of first-degree burglary and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He had been offered a plea deal with a shorter sentence, but he didn’t want to plead guilty to a crime he hadn’t committed.

Israel said the strike targeted a symbol of the Iranian regime, but the attack turned out to be among the deadliest and prisoners were transferred to face worse conditions elsewhere.