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.
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
Man was drunk during Monday’s court appearance and told not to attempt to drive home
Spent three weeks locked up before the trick was discovered
David Adam Pate will serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole for stabbing Ricky James 39 times with a butcher knife
Rogue, a 15-pound Yorkshire terrir mix, broke free from a volunteer and has been on the lam ever since
She said, “If I’m going back to prison, I’ll at least get high before I go”
Two judges found that an inmate’s wedding ring is not a weapon, even though the inmate threw the ring at a correctional officer
Tabatha Coulombe was jailed for violation of her probation, which stems from a 2013 sentencing for animal cruelty
After 20 years, a man is finally behind bars for allowing the grass to grow wild in his yard
Mandy Reynolds, 35, is charged with possession of a controlled substance and contraband in a penal institution.
Florida legislators filed more than 1,700 bills for consideration during their two-month session that ends in May
Authorities say an intoxicated man arrived by taxi to rob a Tallahassee, Florida, bank
Joseph Izzo is serving a 30 year sentence for burglary, conspiracy and possession of a firearm
Andrew Gilbertson claimed the Virgin Mary told him to do it
The transient woman, Kelly Harnett, and a male co-defendant jumped the 32-year-old victim in an Astoria Park
Reno County is buying equipment that will vacuum-seal clothing used by inmates to keep the county’s new jail smelling good
Mitchelle Blair, 35, was arrested Tuesday after court officers serving an eviction notice at her home opened the freezer and found the bodies of her children
Pa. man who skipped out on jury duty 11 times in the last two years arrested inside a courthouse while seeking relief from a child support ruling
58-year-old Eldridge Dukes and his son were fighting Sunday morning about the lack of orange juice
Fifty-year-old David Scofield, of Lancaster, was sentenced Thursday in Akron
A correctional officer with the Refugio County Jail has been terminated after taking an inmate out of the jail to help run errands and to lunch
A weekend soccer player in the Detroit area whose punch killed a referee has been sentenced to at least eight years in prison for involuntary manslaughter
Police say a Pennsylvania man dropped to the ground and rolled around in dog waste to avoid being arrested for public drunkenness, but he was taken into custody anyway
Police have arrested a former husband as an arson suspect after a burning house was found with “My wife is a cheater” spray-painted in at least two places on the outside
Claimed doctor told him to “throw the detached portion of his finger into the garbage”
A high-profile killer will receive $7,500 in damages after a dog for which he was caring as part of a state prison adopt-a-dog program bit off part of his nose
A former substitute teacher convicted of showing a movie including graphic sex and violence to a high school class was sentenced on Wednesday to 90 days in jail
An Oregon woman has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for dousing her husband with gasoline and setting him on fire during an argument over weed killer
Man responded to Facebook alert seeking his arrest for robbery, other charges
Arturo Valenzuela, 23, had walked away during a work release program