Content Tagged 'Prison'

A longtime Memphis educator will spend seven years in federal prison for leading a 15-year scheme to help Mid-South teachers cheat on qualification exams.

A Cordova man will spend the rest of his life in prison for raping seven women. Watch Video

A federal mandate may force an Arkansas county to build a new jail to house juveniles. Watch Video

A convicted cocaine dealer is on the loose after escaping from the Millington federal prison. Travis Ware disappeared Sunday night. Shelby County Commissioner Terry Roland says no one in the county was notified until he started making calls about it. Watch Video

A high-ranking member of one of Memphis' most notorious drug rings is headed to prison for a very long time.

The state has the second highest number of inmates in the nation and it comes with a price tag. Watch Video

Twice convicted murderer Dexter Cox has pleaded guilty to a third death for the fatal 2008 shooting of Memphis Police Lieutenant Ed Vidulich.

Authorities at the Hardeman County Correctional Facility say the prison in Whiteville has been locked down after an inmate was found dead in his cell.

A Memphis man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty for beating a toddler to death with a shoe.

A federal appeals court has ordered a resentencing for an Arkansas doctor convicted in the bombing that nearly killed the head of the state medical board.

Former Tennessee state senator John Ford is expected to walk out of a Mississippi prison after serving four years for extortion. Ford was just one of long list of politicians indicted in the Tennessee Waltz corruption investigation. Watch Video

Former Memphis Tigers football star Xavier Crawford was sentenced to 37 more years behind bars for the brutal rape and robbery of an elderly woman in 2009.

Their bad choices landed them behind bars, but they will still help choose our next president. Watch Video

Officials say a prison for illegal immigrants in Mississippi remains on lockdown after a riot that began on Sunday left one guard dead and at least 19 people injured.

Convicted murderer Dexter Cox has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, again.

Federal authorities say 13 people have been charged with dealing drugs at two West Tennessee prisons.

Authorities in Tennessee say two men, including a former prison guard, have been arrested in a plot to break out Tennessee's lone female death row inmate.

Prosecutors have filed a capital murder charge against an inmate accused of stabbing a guard to death in an east Arkansas prison.