WILKES-BARRE – A contractor who has a personal relationship with the daughter of Luzerne County Prison Warden Gene Fischi was awarded more than $33,000 in no-bid contracts for work at the prison ...

If you’ve been anywhere near the Dauphin County Prison recently, you may have noticed a large new fence circling part of the property. The tall chain-link fence covered with black material was put up ...

BRANCH COUNTY — A chance to make $500 by throwing contraband over the Coldwater Lakeland Corrections Center fence brought Edison Terry, 59, of Detroit, 45 months to 20 years in prison instead. Circuit ...

MORGANTON, N.C. (AP) — Officials say an inmate escaped a North Carolina prison Thursday by climbing a fence and running away. The Department of Public Safety says John Curtis Anderson escaped from the ...

ELMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man is accused of tossing backpacks of contraband -- including drugs and weapons -- over the fence of a prison, authorities said. Glenn Norman, 36, of Montgomery, was charged ...

SAYRE, Okla. (KDKA) -- Authorities in Oklahoma say a woman used a "novel approach" to try to smuggle contraband into a prison. It happened at the North Fork Correctional Center in Sayre, Okla., on ...

A drug-filled football was thrown toward a North Carolina prison — but didn’t reach its intended target, officials said. Prison workers intercepted the ball this month before it got to an inmate at ...

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