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As he sat in his cell last fall, confessed school shooter Nikolas Cruz began writing love letters to a woman he never met, but who wrote to him, sympathetically, soon after his arrest. The letters would never reach the mailbox.

Prosecutors will have to decide whether they want to renew the effort to convict two inmates in the riot at Delaware’s largest prison that killed one correctional officer.

The prison culture in Delaware is changing. This comes months after a prison riot put the facility in lockdown for hours, and left one correctional officer dead. But while changes have been made, one major problem still exists.

The state of Delaware has spent more than $370,000 defending two former governors and a half dozen current and former prison officials against a federal lawsuit filed after a deadly inmate uprising last year.

A Chester County man ingeniously rigged up his son’s toy truck with a shovel, turning it into a fun — and working — snow plow for his driveway.

Mike Brown, of West Grove, Chester County, conjured the ultimate toy: one in which his little kids can ride in the snow and, at the same time, shovels his driveway.

A man was shot by a Correctional Officer less than an hour after being released from a Philadelphia jail. Officials say the man tried to attack and carjack the Correctional Officer.

A Correctional Officer shot a man who police say tried to carjack him less than an hour after being released from a Philadelphia jail.

Two inmates died six hours apart at Montgomery County Correction Facility. Thirty inmates of the jail have died in the last 11 years.

State officials have released an interim report outlining efforts to implement several recommended reforms in the wake of a deadly inmate riot and hostage taking last year at Delaware’s James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.

Delaware prosecutors are holding out the possibility of seeking the death penalty against inmates charged in a deadly prison riot, even though the state does not currently allow capital punishment.

For the first time, a former Delaware corrections officer is speaking out about the deadly February uprising and standoff at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware. The riot resulted in the death of Lt. Steven Floyd. The officer claims there were warning signs of tension building that were ignored.

Gov. John Carney is signing two bills aimed at improving security within Delaware prisons.

Independent investigators say prison administrators dismissed warnings of trouble brewing at Delaware’s maximum-security prison in the days leading up to a deadly inmate uprising and hostage-taking.

An investigation into the deadly riot at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Delaware revealed on Friday details that some officials say could have prevented the tragedy. NBC10’s George Spencer explains.

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for much of the D.C. metro area until 8 p.m. Parts of Loudoun, Fauquier, Fairfax, Culpeper and Prince William counties and the cities of Manassas, Manassas Park and Fairfax are under a severe thunderstorm warning until 3:30 p.m. A warning until 3:45 p.m. includes Montgomery, Loudoun, Frederick, Howard and Carroll counties.

Closing arguments are expected in the federal court trial of an inmate who killed a guard inside a Pennsylvania prison.

An independent review ordered by Delaware’s governor after a deadly inmate riot describes the state’s maximum-security prison as dangerously overcrowded, critically understaffed, and poorly run and managed. According to the preliminary report, prison workers consider communication to be the top problem at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. The report released Friday portrays stressed-out correctional officers as not knowing what is...

Following a deadly hostage situation inside Delaware’s largest prison, questions are being raised about proper staffing. NBC10’s Keith Jones reports.

An insiders’ account of the deadly Delaware prison uprising. NBC10’s Drew Smith talks to two mothers of prisoners who talk about what their sons say happened inside the walls during the day-long stand-off at James T Vaughn Correctional Center.