Deputies arrested two Macon men late Monday night after they were spotted near Hancock State Prison and later found carrying ...

Macon State Prison has become one of the bloodiest correctional facilities in Georgia, and no one knows that better than the men and women who work for Macon County EMS. As the violence at the ...

The AJC found that Macon State Prison, which is about two hours south of Atlanta in rural Macon County, was the deadliest in Georgia last year, with at least nine homicides. The killings have ...

Macon State Prison inmate Marquel Smith died on February 14. The official cause of death has not been released. Smith was serving a life sentence for Armed Robbery out of Gwinnett County.

Back in January 2023, 60-year-old Robert Wells of Dublin was found shot to death outside the Mrs. Winner's restaurant on Pio ...

A Georgia man will spend nine years in prison for stealing 62 guns from a Macon pawn shop. Rontavious Jamal Jackson, 34, of ...

William Cherry, 55, on State Highway 10 in Macon County. An open plea admits guilt ... Vehicular homicide by intoxication carries a possible prison term of between 8-12 years as a Class B felony ...

Consultants hired by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp found that staffing vacancies for correctional officers at the majority of Georgia's 34 prisons have reached "emergency levels." ATLANTA — As state ...