Arrests and Sentencing
Arrests and Sentencing are critical components of the criminal justice system, directly impacting the correctional workforce. This section provides articles that explore the processes, legal standards, and implications of Arrests and Sentencing in various jurisdictions. Understanding how arrests lead to sentencing decisions and how these outcomes affect correctional facilities is essential for professionals in the field. For more insights, see our related resources on Re-Entry and Recidivism.
Spared execution, his existence behind bars looms as dreadful and possibly violent due to his lack of social skills
Arturo Pacheco, 40, is one of two California State Prison, Sacramento, COs who have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a 2016 fatal incident involving inmate Ronnie Price
Richard Gillmore, arrested in 1986 and called the “jogger rapist” because he staked out victims as he ran by their homes
Aaron Hand was sentenced Monday to an additional eight to 16 years in prison for the contract-killing scheme
The case is a challenge to the scope of Kentucky’s post-conviction DNA testing law
An autopsy on 6-week-old Michael Acosta III found that the infant died of “methamphetamine toxicity”
An appellate court panel recently upheld a 55-year prison sentence issued to a Jamaican citizen
The words from Alyssa Bustamante’s journal were read aloud in court Monday as part of a sentencing hearing to determine whether she should be sentenced to life in prison
Rodney Berget had pleaded guilty to killing 63-year-old Ronald Johnson on April 12 — Johnson’s 63rd birthday
Lawyers say 61-year-old Priscilla Frieberger died in October after spending the last three weeks of her life decomposing in a brown cloth recliner
Ka Yang is still facing a special-circumstance charge of torture that could send her to life in prison with no chance of parole if convicted
Twenty-nine-year-old Jesse Macklin was sentenced Friday, a little more than two months after he pleaded guilty to more than 200 counts including burglary, invasion of privacy and trespassing
Nevine Aly Elshiekh is accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a North Carolina terrorism case
A 250-pound Montana man has a history of jumping on the backs of student athletes
John Lotter and a co-defendant were convicted in the 1993 slaying of a 21-year-old woman who lived briefly as a man and two witnesses to the killing
John Gassew was profiled by The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2010 after he was arrested 44 times without a conviction in the city court system
Police say Tyree Lincoln Smith killed the homeless Angel Gonzalez with an ax and ate one of his eyeballs and part of his brain
Dominick Cicale was a central witness at the trials of mob boss Vinny “Gorgeous” Basciano
Officials are investigating an envelope containing white powder that was directed to President Barack Obama
Jackie Burkle is charged with two counts of first-degree murder
Knox County Sheriff’s deputies in Knoxville served a search warrant and seized computer and other evidence Friday from the home of 33-year-old Adam Eugene Cox
Umar Hudson had been molesting 32-year-old Jernell Scott’s daughters, then ages 13 and 9, in their home for several months before the older girl spoke out
Man arrested for allegedly hacking to death a man and eating the victim’s eye and part of his brain
Joseph Naso is charged with the murders of Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya, in the 1970s and 1990s
Andre Davis was sentenced Monday on 14 felonious assault counts for having sex with women without telling them he had HIV
Man charged with murder in the 2003 death of a Kansas woman whose drowning was initially ruled an accident
The handyman is accused of dousing 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie with gas and setting her ablaze as she tried to exit the elevator at her apartment building on Dec. 17
Former inmate accused of leaving a threatening phone message at the courthouse where he was sentenced to death nearly 25 years ago
The New Haven Superior Court jury found 47-year-old Kevin Benefield guilty of murder and felony murder during its second day of deliberations
Ryan Brunn quietly detailed how he lured Jorelys Rivera into a vacant apartment, molested her, beat and stabbed her to death and stuffed her body into a trash bin
Throughout the more than 3-minute video, several attackers — many with sweat shirt hoods over their heads and some wearing masks — are seen repeatedly kicking, punching and yelling at the victim
Maksim Gelman pleaded guilty in November to murder, assault and attempted murder in the February 2011 rampage that spanned two days