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.
Jerry Raynes was apprehended days after he and three other inmates escaped from the Raymond Detention Center
Richard Glossip is scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 18
Robert Sylvester Kelly was transferred from the Metropolitan Correctional Center Chicago to the federal correctional institution in Butner, N.C.
Carlos Avalos was convicted of second-degree assault Feb. 13 for stabbing Officer Eric Huether with a 4-inch metal shank
Named for Eileen DiNino, who passed while serving a two-day sentence for her children’s truancy violations
An ex-convict who robbed a bank hoping he’d be sent back to prison told an Indiana judge he wanted to plead guilty only if he received the maximum 8-year sentence
Nathaniel Adderly will serve sentence he was given for assault at the same time as his original sentence
Ann Crall, 34, faked having cancer and was on probation in Jefferson County for a 2011 conviction for charitable fraud
Given four years for attempting to burn down a Crown Heights building in 2013
Police arrested a man suspected of robbing a bank in New Jersey after they say he stopped for a cup of coffee a block away
he judge at Camp Lejeune, Marine Maj. Nicholas Martz, ruled that Cpl. Wassef Hassoun was guilty of deserting when he disappeared in 2004 and 2005
A convicted child molester has agreed to plead guilty to mailing a threatening letter from jail to President Barack Obama — albeit to the wrong address
Robert Van Winkle, a.k.a. Vanilla Ice, said the situation was a “misunderstanding” and has been “blown out of proportion”
An HIV-positive man who told a partner that they could safely have unprotected sex should face a misdemeanor reckless endangerment charge, not a felony
Lawrence Peterson Jr. will now serve a life sentence on top of the 40- to 80-year term he had been serving for a violent robbery
Central Texas man in prison for not registering as a sex offender must serve 80 more years for trying to hire a hit man to kill the judge in his case
Hugo Selenski, 41, was convicted last week on two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett
Israel Silva, 25, wore an orange jail jumpsuit and shackles when District Judge Steven Cranfill wed Silva and Ivy Koryne Smith, 19, of Powell in a Cody courtroom last week
A homeless man broke into a funeral home and had sex with a woman’s body
CO and another were arrested after stealing a woman’s iPad and purse at gunpoint
Police say the boy’s mother, grandmother and aunt planned the ruse last week to scare him, because they believed he was too nice to people
Prosecutors can seek an extra year in prison for the offenders under a bill now before Washington state lawmakers
A 2012 riot at a Miss. facility ended in the death of Sgt. Catlin Carithers
A Connecticut man has been sentenced to two years in prison for killing five cats belonging to his fiancee’s family
Surveillance video also captured the attack and the suspects driving away
35-year-old Stephen Crow repeatedly called the Buckeye Police Department referring to Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a racist and Hitler
25-year-old Benjamin Alexander Shaw demanded money from a Circle K store clerk Monday night, threatening to return with a gun if he refused
Calvin Moore, 49, stole $5.035 from one bank in New York on November 17; the next day, he stole $1,647 from another
Hugo Selenski is on trial in the slayings of Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett
Antonio Yarbough and co-defendant Sharrif Wilson were cleared by DNA evidence and released last year
Brandon Moore was tried as an adult and convicted by a jury in the 2001 armed kidnapping, robbery and gang rape of a 22-year-old Youngstown State University student
Fla. man suspected of stealing a car took off on foot from a traffic stop and briefly eluded deputies while he grabbed a nap under a nearby trailer
Daniel U. Perez, a 55-year-old self-proclaimed seer, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder