A registered sex offender was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to child pornography charges, according to a statement from the office of Acting United States Attorney Sara ...

Alan D. Sampson was arrested in 2003 and convicted on an attempted larceny charge that was vacated by the Rhode Island ...

Presiding Justice Alice B. Gibney vacated the $160,278 given to Alan Sampson because of a "miscommunication" with prosecutors ...

WARWICK – A Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced two men to life terms, plus 10 years, for the killing of a pregnant ...

A Pawtucket man has been sentenced to serve 40 years in prison for providing a Pawtucket mother with the fentanyl that killed ...

Walik Morrison, 44, was sentenced on Monday by Providence Superior Court Judge William E. Carnes to 50 years with 40 to serve ...

Two violent deaths at a state prison near Stockton have brought attention to conjugal visits, a practice many states have abandoned.

spokesperson for Rhode Island's corrections department, told the Providence Journal. “Unfortunately, it is also a primary method by which contraband, including but not limited to cell phones ...

The investigation comes as violence in state prisons – directed at correction ... On Friday, Fazzary told The Buffalo News: “The prison strike has made it difficult to continue the ...

Here are some of The Providence Journal's most-read stories for the week of March 16, supported by your subscriptions. Here are the week's top reads on providencejournal.com: BOSTON – The federal ...