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Bad behavior in state workplace costs taxpayers nearly $2M in settlements

Complaints by corrections officers not taken seriously are costing taxpayers millions

December 19, 2012 04:27 AM

2 inmates escape from federal prison in Chicago

What appeared to be a rope, knotted at six-foot intervals, could be seen dangling into an alley on the side of the Metropolitan Correctional Center from a window approximately 20 stories from the ground

December 18, 2012 04:59 AM

Ex-CO pleads guilty to bribery charge

Contract employee took cash to smuggle items into D.C. correctional treatment facility

December 18, 2012 03:40 AM

Court overturns boy’s guilty plea in Ind. slaying

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Paul Henry Gingerich had not received the due process to which he was entitled and ordered a new juvenile court hearing

December 12, 2012 04:15 AM

Portuguese man convicted in NY castration killing

A Manhattan jury did not buy the idea that Renato Seabra was out of his mind when he choked, bludgeoned and mutilated Carlos Castro

November 30, 2012 11:45 AM

Ohio’s ‘cleaning fairy’ gets 1 year of probation

Told authorities she “wanted something to do,” so she broke into a house and cleaned it

November 30, 2012 11:42 AM

NH couple arrested at Fla. parade after boy burned

Federal marshals took 23-year-old Jessica Linscott and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Roland Dow, into custody Wednesday evening

November 29, 2012 04:10 AM

Ohio man gets jail for mocking disabled girl

He apologized to the girl and her family in a statement Tuesday

November 28, 2012 05:08 AM

Full-body scanners proposed for North Ireland jails

May provide a way of checking inmates on entering or leaving jail without strip-searching

November 29, 2012 04:49 AM

Man receives life in sexual assault of Texas girl

Jared Len Cruse was convicted of aggravated sexual assault earlier Wednesday in Liberty

November 29, 2012 04:16 AM