Gray captured hours after Clay County escape
Starkville police officers, U.S. Marshals and Mississippi Department of Corrections officials apprehended an escaped Clay County inmate Saturday in Starkville, hours after he broke out of jail.
Sheriff: Inmate kills 2 bailiffs at Michigan courthouse
A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said.
Man held 11 years without trial will go to mental facility
A Mississippi man who has been jailed nearly 11 years without going to trial will be transferred to a state mental health facility, attorneys said Monday.
Guilty plea in hospital bomb threat
A Columbus man has pleaded guilty to making a false bomb threat to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in November.
Lowndes Co. inmate dead in suspected suicide
A 45-year-old Brooksville man appears to have committed suicide this weekend while in custody at the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center.
Feds: Hospital bomb threat made by man in jail
A Columbus man accused of making a false bomb threat to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle last week is facing up to a decade behind bars.
Miss. inmate accused scamming other inmates’ families
A Mississippi inmate has been charged with running a jailhouse scam that bilked money out of other prisoners’ families by pretending to be an elected official or federal judge and promising to get early release for their loved ones in exchange for money, Attorney General Jim Hood said Wednesday.
Texas jail death focuses new attention on suicides
When Sandra Bland died in a small Texas jail last week, she became just the latest name on a long list of inmates whose deaths were determined to be suicides.
Death row inmate challenges evidence in new trial bid
A man sentenced to death in the rape and killing of an 82-year-old woman is pursuing a new trial by renewing a legal challenge on evidence from a bite mark on the victim that was used to convict him.
Brown pursues mental disability argument
Mississippi inmate Sherwood Brown is seeking to have his death sentence overturned because he is mentally disabled.
A DeSoto County judged ruled against Brown in 2013. Brown appealed to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for Oct. 6 in Jackson.
Clay County escapee arrested in Indiana
An inmate who escaped from the Clay County Jail nearly two month ago was apprehended in Indiana on Monday.
Botched executions raise new questions
A botched execution in Arizona last week has sent many states scrambling to make sure their executions don’t follow a similar grim scenario.
Authorities capture escaped inmate
An inmate who escaped the blueberry farm at South Mississippi Correctional Institution is back in custody.
Ex-clerk accused of altering marriage records
A former Hinds County deputy circuit clerk is charged with altering public records to list herself as married so she could have a conjugal visit with a prisoner.
Inmate escapes Clay County Jail for second time
The Clay County Sheriff’s Department is looking for an inmate who escaped Wednesday afternoon.
Supreme Court justice suspends execution
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order late Tuesday suspending the planned execution of a Missouri inmate with a little more than an hour to spare before the inmate’s scheduled lethal injection.
Pardoned ex-prisoner pleads guild to manslaughter
One of the ex-prisoners who received a pardon from then-Gov. Haley Barbour has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after he killed another man in an exchange of gunfire.
Man freed in delayed imprisonment case
Cornealious “Mike” Anderson spent 13 years free from prison due to a clerical error, then nearly a year behind bars when the mistake was caught. On Monday, he walked out of a southeast Missouri courtroom a free man again — this time with no need to look over his shoulder.
Execution renews debate on doctors’ role
A botched lethal injection in Oklahoma this week has renewed a debate on whether doctors should be banned from executions — or required to participate to make the process more humane.
Lawmakers say they won’t abandon death penalty
A bungled execution in Oklahoma in which the condemned prisoner writhed and moaned as he received a lethal injection outraged death-penalty opponents, invited court challenges and attracted worldwide attention.