The Arrests & Sentencing section provides corrections officers with news on criminal cases — from crimes committed within the prison system to repeat offenders committing crimes outside of prison walls.
Lt. Michael Boutte of the Hancock County Sheriff's Department was shot in the face and head on Feb. 1, 2021, while responding to a call about a suicide threat
Worn by an inmate in contact with their body and hidden under their clothing, a stun device can be activated remotely by a trained transport officer to quickly stop an escape or violence
In addition to a 43-month prison sentence, the ex-CO was sentenced to two years of supervised release and will have to forfeit the $77,894 he obtained illegally
Price had served 19 years of a 35-year mandatory sentence when a judge issued a directive for him to be released for giving information to prison officials
The ex-CO was convicted of perjury before the grand jury, but jurors couldn't decide on other counts accusing her of trying to get other COs to cover up the attack
One CO wrote in his plea agreement that he called an inmate he supervised into his office and told her he could make her time in prison easier or more difficult
The death penalty filing cites four aggravating circumstances, including that Deputy Durm was killed while performing “his duty as a law enforcement officer"
Marion County Sheriff’s Deputy John Durm, 61, died at a hospital following the attack, which police are investigating as an “intentional act of homicide"