... an essay about what it means to be an American. The girlâ s essay, titled â We win,â caught the eye of state prison officials who petitioned the governor to put the slogan on the official state license plate. Months later, another military ...

... Arkansas will not cut through muscle to find an inmate's veins during a difficult lethal injection procedure, a state prison official said. A federal court affidavit by Ray Hobbs, a chief deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Correction ...

... Court? I have to have you. It's all meaningless without you."' The same day Kevorkian went to prison, state prison officials said they had reversed their policy on force-feeding. Under the policy, Kevorkian would have been allowed ...

TEXARKANA (AP) -- State prison officials say former Secretary of State Bill McCuen has no right to file a grievance on behalf of another inmate who McCuen claims was assaulted ...

... said. At work, the inmates wear brown uniforms and name tags. After hours, troopers do random head counts. State prison officials determine which inmates qualify for the program, based on good behavior, and place the inmates at the headquarters ...

... re confident that the commission was right, and that's why they're often called the 'conscience of the state."' Prison officials disagreed with the decision. "We believe that there were two employees who were negligent," said department ...

TUCKER (AP) -- State prison officials believe a private company that operates two state prisons at Newport has made progress in keeping the prisons clean and keeping ...

... Newbury and Murphy contended the breakout was necessitated by corruption within the Texas criminal justice system. State prison officials responded angrily Wednesday. "Here we have a couple of cop killers ... and they want to criticize the criminal ...

LEWISVILLE (AP) -- The Lafayette County sheriff asked state prison officials to take back three state inmates he was housing in his jail after questions were raised about supervision of the prisoners, a ...

... currently owes the counties about $4 million for housing inmates awaiting transfer to crowded state prisons. State prison officials anticipate the debt will be $7 million by June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. The state pays the counties ...