Warsaw, N.Y. — A "persistent violent felony offender" was sentenced Wednesday for attacking a guard while serving time at Attica Correctional Facility, according to the Wyoming County District ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills signed three players to one-year contracts on Thursday, including veteran interior offensive linemen Austin Corbett GALLERY: A sneak peek inside the ...

WARSAW — A state prison inmate was determined to be a persistent violent felony offender before receiving a 15-year-to-life term for attacking a corrections officer. Michael Nero, 45, was sentenced ...

ALBANY — There’s one thing that the state’s Republican legislators and prison reform advocates can agree on: Something needs to change in New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer connected to the Mexican drug cartel La Linea was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison on drug trafficking and bribery charges, according to court ...

A Saugus man who led a North Shore drug ring with his brother was sentenced Monday to 19 years in federal prison for the scheme that distributed tens of thousands of fake prescription pills laced with ...

DENVER — A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building was sentenced Monday to 18 years on a federal fraud charge, nearly the maximum ...

When Hollywood’s stars walk the red carpet for the 98 th Academy Awards tonight, one nominee will not be a love story or epic drama but the tragedy repeated daily inside Alabama’s overcrowded prisons.

SEATTLE — A Seattle man convicted of attacking two transgender women showed no remorse on Friday as he was sentenced to prison for a hate crime assault and a separate, unrelated assault, both ...

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CHARLESTON, Maine (WABI) - An inmate at the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston has died. According to the Department of Corrections, 75-year-old Milo Richards died Wednesday morning.