Weird News
The Weird News topic gives corrections officers a place to get articles covering the bizarre, including strange crimes, wacky courtroom appearances, and oddball encounters COs have on a daily basis. The job is deadly serious, but there are dozens of moments in corrections that leave officers shaking their heads and laughing as they make their rounds.
Court records say Billy Partington misrepresented himself and never corrected corrections’ officers when his picture was compared to his brother during the release procedure
Kirk Muckenfuss was “caught in the act” of cutting the jail fence; correction officers were waiting for him, and chased him out through the hole
The inmate wrote letters threatening to kill public officials as well as demanding his release; all letters had “Inmate Mail” stamps and at least two letters had his DNA on them
A jail call to his girlfriend after his arrest didn’t help matters either
A group who had a launching device had planned to hurl the balls toward the prison
The 35-year-old suspect, who allegedly admitting he’d also been drinking, said he was unaware he was entering a jail
“There’s always been a problem of being able to just dig a hole outside the building,” said a jail spokesperson
He was denied bail and was returned to jail with the additional charge of forgery
Officials need to repair gnawed electrical wiring and remove carcasses from walls and ceilings
The woman had just been booked on theft-related charges
Linda Macauley claims county officials violated her husband’s civil rights by not preventing him from dying by suicide
According to police, the man said prison would be better than more time with the people he was living with
Unknown to the inmate, the “hit man” he was talking with was an undercover FBI agent
Robert Berger now faces up to four years in prison if convicted in the alleged scheme
The shipment was seized in New York because the weaves appear to be a product of forced child labor and imprisonment
The family claimed Julie Wheeler had fallen from the main overlook at the New River Gorge National River in West Virginia
Tarrant County Jail staff knew the woman was pregnant and had been checking on her regularly
Jeron Combs, a convicted murderer, cooks meals on a makeshift grill he created with his metal bed and a hot plate
The officers, who were screaming at him to stop, grabbed the inmate’s upper body and placed him on a gurney after the incident
The corrections officer caught Paul Garrett Mercer with a cup of ramen noodles he had taken from the commissary without paying
The Person County Sheriff’s Office helped fulfill Ruth Bryant’s unusual wish: to celebrate her birthday in jail
The letters were sent to the prison warden and a prison gang member, demanding the release of an inmate
Lori Loughlin’s pre-lockup regimen reportedly includes martial arts training
A three-judge panel ruled the name change to “Better Off Dead” would be too confusing
The find was documented in a medical journal as the cause of a stone formation in the inmate’s nose
Keisha Houser received special permission to have her wedding in jail while she remained incarcerated
Andrew Pleviak allegedly showed a fake memorandum in an attempt to release an inmate
At the time of the search, state law permitted patients to smoke marijuana to relieve symptoms but did not cover butter or other edibles
It’s at least the fourth time in the last six months that a Cuyahoga County Jail inmate was released by mistake
Ken Richey has been accused of threatening two former judges who prosecuted his original case
One inmate was in critical condition
The deception was not discovered until June 4, just as the man was about to be released on parole
Authorities say a prison food employee who was smitten with an Indiana inmate smuggled a wedding ring behind bars