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.
“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
A television director with credits on “Law & Order” has been arrested in suburban New York on child pornography charges
Corrections officers are accused of holding a Burmese python to the face of a sleeping inmate
A Missouri man was charged Sunday with murdering his 74-year-old father by lying on his head until the man lost consciousness, to prove “how big and bad” he was, authorities said
An Arizona prison inmate who sliced off the penis of a seriously mentally ill inmate before killing him has been sentenced to death
Brad Lee Davis, 35, of McLoud, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter
Brad Lee Davis pleaded guilty in May to first-degree manslaughter for killing his stepfather after a fight
Sprayed the officer just days before the original charges that landed him behind bars were dismissed
The two had gotten into an argument over a dress, which turned physical
Alexander Schauss’s pink theory was intended to diminish aggressive behavior
Hundreds of union workers wore the shirts printed with vertical prison stripes to protest a lengthy contract dispute with the company
A Michigan judge sent three children to juvenile detention for refusing to have lunch or talk to their father
3 arrested, more than a pound of meth seized
“We politely informed them that’s not something we would be able to accommodate because something like that creates a host of security issues for us”
Suzanne Joyce Griffin, 57, of Norcross, Ga., was sentenced to two to five years in prison Monday afternoon; sentence was suspended
Richard Matt found he was too fat to fit through a two-foot wide steam pipe that was key to their escape
Becky Rehr says she drove to the Kalamazoo County sheriff’s office June 23 to prove that she’s recently renewed the license for the family’s 11-year-old dog, Dexter
Jose Caballero, 40, and Elissa Alvarez, 21, were convicted in May of two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior
Sheriff says its a cost-saving measure
Hartman had just been released from jail on Thursday, telling reporters she felt “free as a bird.”
Police say 140 pairs of underwear have been stolen from a northeast Pennsylvania store that’s been struck by four bra heists since February
Officer had been told that no one else was in the house, but what he found in a closet surprised him
Yancey Wilson was being held on robbery charges, was seen wearing only boxer shorts outside the facility
Police say a man who took a 300-mile cab ride across Pennsylvania to surprise his fiancee has been jailed because he couldn’t pay the $749 fare
Atlanta police Officer Ralph Woolfolk says authorities believe the hearse was taken Sunday morning
A western New York man faces sentencing for illegally possessing more than 100 turtles, a screech owl and several other birds
Samson Hill, 26, who is awaiting trial for unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, attempted to scale a 14-foot fence but got caught in razor wire
18-year-old Hayden Smith was charged with domestic violence third degree and criminal mischief
Police say a man visiting his wife in jail is facing charges after pills were found in a cheeseburger he was trying to bring into the building
With six months to live, Georgianna Reid is afraid that if she doesn’t comply she will die behind bars