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Maine police are searching for a maximum-security inmate who was mistakenly released from the county jail.

A federal appeals court on Monday halted the execution of an inmate three weeks after problems with a lethal injection attempt.

Texas authorities on Sunday were searching for a convicted burglar who escaped from a medical facility by rappelling off the building using a string of bedsheets, officials said.

Bernard Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources.

Federal judges call conditions in the prisons 'appalling' and unconstitutional. California must shrink the population of its teeming prisons by nearly 43,000 inmates over the next two years to meet constitutional standards, a panel of three federal judges ruled Tuesday, ordering the state to come up with a reduction plan by mid-September.

Authorities in Maryland say a prison work crew kept a toddler safe after the child was found wandering alone on a rural highway.