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Roy Booth, 40, was indicted Wednesday on charges of armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and mayhem in connection to the attack against Matthew Tidman.

The woman says nurses ignored her screams for six hours while she delivered a baby in a solitary confinement cell.

Stewart’s pottery class is just one of the many crafty activities that she did while incarcerated.

The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in

A Massachusetts inmate who was being treated for coronavirus has died, authorities announced Thursday night. The Massachusetts Department of Correction said a man in his 50s who had underlying health conditions was undergoing treatment at a hospital for COVID-19 when he died. It was the first coronavirus-related fatality of a prisoner in Massachusetts. The man was not identified due to…

Two guards at a federal prison in Massachusetts have pleaded not guilty to charges resulting from what authorities called an assault on a “vulnerable inmate.” Seth Bourget, 39, of Woodstock, Connecticut, was arraigned Thursday in federal court in Boston on deprivation of rights charges. Bourget kneed an inmate in the head while the inmate was handcuffed and restrained in a…

An inmate who escaped in South Carolina 40 years ago was arrested in Delaware this week, NBC News reported.

A 15-year-old boy accused of stabbing his mother to death and who escaped from juvenile hall is back in custody.

Massachusetts prisons officials have for the first time moved a transgender inmate from a men’s prison to a women’s prison. Court filings show that the 54-year-old inmate, who has lived as a woman and received hormone therapy for decades, was transferred in September from MCI-Norfolk to the state women’s prison in Framingham.

The controversy over midazolam, a drug used during state executions of convicted inmates, rises following the execution of a fourth Arkansas inmate in eight days. Witnesses say Kenneth Williams, convicted for the 1999 murder of two people, moved and shook during his execution Thursday night.

The inmate was found two to three days after he died, the Medical Examiner found.

NBC Boston has exclusive information that could bring authorities closer to the capture of an escaped inmate.