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.
The inmate was “literally trying to chisel his way out of jail” with a sharpened 3-foot metal section of his bunk, the ADA said
Chad Michael Gosney said he was there to pick up an inmate
Jail staff immediately noticed “irregularities” with the request
The sheriff declined to release the name of the suspended deputy
Inmates are worried about contaminants in the other mothers’ milk
The man said he ate his roommate’s brain as part of a ‘mutual agreement’
Riot left 49 inmates dead and 11 others injured
Steven Pratt was 15 when he shot and killed his next-door neighbor
Police later confiscated the dollar bill, a jacket and a revolver as evidence
Police say Eldon Gale Samuel III showed no remorse
The man’s attorney said the case ‘can’t be much worse’
The display featured a sharp-toothed, ghoulish figure in the manger where baby Jesus would be
Jamaican officials say the severed head of a murder suspect who escaped from jail has been found along railroad tracks in a city west of the capital
Man barred from testifying at his murder trial after asking jurors to “vote not guilty” has been sentenced to life in prison
TV personality Mike Rowe of ‘Dirty Jobs’ fired back at the politician
They also learned the man sought help from a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard who was an FBI informant
The clinic says the cause of death in 1996 was a massive head injury
If convicted, the woman faces a maximum sentence of more than a year in prison
A man refused to share his hot dogs, then things turned violent
Virginia authorities say they have noticed a rise in people trying to steal underwear in order to earn money to buy drugs
Burglary suspect who was held at gunpoint by two of his victims is back in jail after allegedly committing another robbery
Jury rejected woman’s argument that she was in the midst of a seizure and didn’t know what she was doing
Kevin Jaramillo is accused of using a squirt gun full of his semen to spray children
Inmates at the Barra da Grota prison used a mouse with bags of drugs tied to its tale to ferry the contraband between cells
A federal judge has rejected Malcolm Smith’s request to delay his seven-year sentence so he could attend a seminar on living behind bars
A deputy on duty at the time directed Castro to leave and turn himself in at the San Jose Police Department instead
Clodoaldo Antonio Felipe used a mask and a long dress to pretend he was an elderly woman in order to walk right out from the Coronel Odenir Guimaraes Prison in central Brazil
A New Mexico man who had been watching TV’s “The Walking Dead” told authorities he fatally beat his friend before he could become a zombie
Charles R. Cole was arrested Friday in the death of 76-year-old Betty Cole
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