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 A man who walked away from a minimum-security Department of Corrections facility might be armed and dangerous, the department said.

 A D.C. jail inmate charged in a wild shoot-out with District police escaped from custody Thursday morning and remains on the run, authorities said.

 Six enterprising inmates at the Osceola County Jail were brewing homemade alcohol using fruit they hoarded and fermented within their cell walls, deputies said.

Inmates in corrections facilities across the United States often trade the homemade booze or "buck," as it is commonly known, for cash, drugs, cigarettes or favors.

COLUMBUS, Ohio —  Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch.

Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr., who admitted taking an overdose of medication prescribed to him, arrived at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown shortly after noon on Tuesday.

 SAN AUGUSTINE, TX (KTRE) - A 21-year-old woman hanged herself to death a day after being booked into the San Augustine County jail, a sheriff's office spokesman said Tuesday.

According to Chief Deputy Allen Cunningham, Sonya Sheffield was arrested Feb. 27 on an outstanding warrant in Anderson County on a charge of debit/credit card abuse.

 A missing prison inmate from the Yankton Trusty Unit has been captured in Missouri.

The Yankton County Sheriff’s Office received a report at 3:48 p.m. on Sunday of a prison inmate who had escaped from the Trusty Unit on the grounds of the Human Services Center.

 SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- The search for an inmate who walked away from Livesay Correctional Institution in Spartanburg on Monday has ended.

The S.C. Department of Corrections said 26-year-old Franklin Harris was confirmed missing from the institution at about 1:30 p.m.

 DES MOINES, Iowa -- The bomb squad was called Monday afternoon to the Polk County Jail.

The officials said that at 3:18 p.m., ambulance crews, fire trucks, bomb squad personnel and other officers and deputies were called to the jail after a suspicious brief case was found.

TEMPE - A female inmate escaped police custody at a Tempe hospital before being caught about two hours later.

Police say Yvette Decordes, 20, reportedly slipped out of her handcuffs and her hospital gown and fled while at St. Luke’s Hospital.

Lt. Scott Smith, with the Tempe Police Department, tells 3TV, “At approximately 7:15 p.m. one of our officers called out that he had a prisoner that was fleeing from the Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital in the area of Mill and Apache.

CHICAGO —  Cook County Jail inmate is charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill two children he's accused of molesting and their parents.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says 32-year-old Edward Floyd faces six counts of solicitation to commit murder.