County officials said a 53-year-old woman inmate was found dead in her cell at the Cumberland County Prison on Friday, Jan. 2.

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An investigation is underway after a female inmate at the Blair County Prison was found dead Friday in her cell. According to Blair County Coroner Ray Benton, his office was alerted to the death at 10:23 a.

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Stearns County corrections officers responded to an inmate who pressed the intercom button in his cell. When officers arrived, water was spilling onto the jail's floor, according to the criminal complaint. The water came from a sink the inmate allegedly pulled off his cell wall.

About a month later, Ryan Rayburn, 27, was found unresponsive in his cell and died shortly after arriving at Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital in Morgan County. State police previously said foul play is suspected, and an inmate was being investigated as a person of interest.

An inmate in the St. Landry Parish jail attempted suicide Friday, in what Sheriff Bobby Guidroz called a lapse in maintenance by the parish government.

French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from prison in late November by sawing through cell bars and using bedsheets, sources close to the case told AFP. The 19-year-old escapee, suspected in a drug-linked attempted murder case ...