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 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
And you thought contraband was strange – check out these legal items inmates can buy at commissary
Alan B. Griffin accuses Maury Povich of exploiting his daughter after seeing both the girl and his ex-wife on an episode back in 2010
Sentenced to at least three years in prison for biting off most of another man’s right ear during an attack outside a bar
Matched a would-be pizza shop robber to a roll of toilet paper in his Pennsylvania home.
Posted Facebook comments encouraging people to kill police
Two brothers sued man who they say sexually abused them when they were children after the man won $3 million in the lottery
A 31-year-old woman died a week after being taken to a hospital to have a crack pipe removed from her body
A Douglas County Jail inmate was caught red-handed attempting to steal a computer
We all know about license plates, but did you know these products were inmate-made too?
A woman who attempted to switch seats and was jailed for doing so is suing United Airlines for $5 million
Some counties near Colorado are treating marijuana extracts used in food as a Schedule I drug
An Iowa man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for selling crack cocaine at a candy store
200-pound statue had been pilfered nearly two weeks ago
Ronald Badillo reportedly sent 11 letters and made 391 phone calls from the Racine County Jail to his ex-girlfriend
Tried to stab one officer with a spork, and then spit on three others
Inmate who went missing claimed to be bringing lost sheep back to herd, but he failed a breathalyzer test
Called in bomb threats to elementary schools in order to get into prison
Added additional charges to her original failure-to-appear warrants
Not only depicts anti-police violence in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner deaths, but also promotes rape, gang and gun violence, and drug dealing
Bicycles and lawnmowers were included in the statutory definition of a vehicle in 2006
“Keep digging that hole deeper and deeper, I’am sure I can find a way to fill it, L.O.L. Tic, Tic, Tic Down to 19 month’s”
Here are six courtroom outbursts that will leave you with your jaw on the floor
Arrested in 1999 for on a charge of sexually battering a 9-year-old boy
Robert Vitale is the third and last ACI employee to retire amid an investigation following a séance that took place in February in the office of then-deputy director David McCauley
“I’ve made loads of money in the stock market, for a whole bunch of people”
Wayne’s photo is the default for mugshots at the station
Tossed a plugged-in radio alarm clock into a motel bathtub while her boyfriend was in it
Less than an hour after she was released on Thanksgiving, Shaday Gamble was back behind bars
Tried to pass the boxes off as toy packages
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