Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh has been moved into the protective custody unit of a South Carolina maximum security prison, but prison officials won’t be disclosing which of the state’s seven “close custody” facilities the former lawyer will serve his two life sentences. The state Department of Corrections made the announcement Friday afternoon, saying Murdaugh’s evaluation …
Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh is being held in a single cell under constant surveillance for his own safety, TMZ says in a report sourced to the state Department of Corrections. The disgraced South Carolina lawyer was convicted last week of gunning down his wife Maggie and son Paul and sentenced to two consecutive life …
South Carolina officials have released a new photo of Alex Murdaugh following his conviction for the murders of his wife and son, Maggie and Paul. Fox News reported that the Department of Corrections issued the new mugshot of Murdaugh, which was taken on Tuesday because the previous one was blurry. He was transported to Kirkland …
Alex Murdaugh, convicted in the double murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul and sentenced to consecutive life sentences, was booked into South Carolina’s Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center in Columbia Friday night, where he’ll be assessed before he’s assigned to one of the state’s maximum security facilities. Inmate Richard Alexander Murdaugh has arrived …
The father of missing Florida girl Haleigh Cummings is set to be released from prison Wednesday. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Ronald Cummings, who has been behind bars since 2010 for drug trafficking, will be released from the Lake Correctional Institute in Clermont. In 2010, Cummings pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, a year …
An inmate who was serving time in a Michigan federal prison for bank robbery was sentenced on Tuesday to 24 years for murdering the leader of a child porn ring in 2019. Adam Wright, 42, was the first of three inmates to be sentenced in the fatal beating and stabbing of Christian Maire, 40. The …
A federal grand jury has indicted three men in connection with the beating death of former Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger. Bulger, 89, was convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to life in prison in 2013. He was serving his sentence at US Penitentiary Hazleton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, when he was beaten …
An inmate housed at a Tennesee prison died in February after a visitor attempted to smuggle drugs to the inmate by kissing him, according to reports. Rachel Dollard was visiting Joshua Brown at the Turney Center Industrial Complex in Hickman County when she allegedly kissed Brown to give him a balloon pellet containing half an …
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a low-security federal prison in Florida, where she will presumably serve her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking girls for late billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. WCTV reported that Maxwell, 60, is now housed at the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution. Before her transfer, Maxwell was expected to serve her …
Convicted child killer Tracey Connelly is reportedly “fuming” after a British judge decided against allowing her a new identity upon prison release. According to DailyMail, Connelly, who reportedly gained a lot of weight in prison, was blocked from getting a name change and instead, was reportedly told by the parole board to lose weight and …
Police in northern Alabama are searching for a capital murder suspect and a corrections officer who have been missing since they left the detention center for the courthouse at 9:30 a.m. Friday morning. No one noticed suspect Casey Cole White and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White (no relation) were missing for six hours, according …
On Tuesday, inmates at a North Carolina prison fatally beat a man who was convicted of killing a toddler girl in 2014. WNCN reported that Semajs Short, 24, died about an hour after he was attacked in Bertie Correctional Institution’s housing area. Three other inmates suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the incident, which was described as …
