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.
Authorities say a prison food employee who was smitten with an Indiana inmate smuggled a wedding ring behind bars
Officials say in both cases, the couples from Florida and Nebraska communicated with the women while in jail and after their release
A female correctional officer found $6,233 along with “a clear plastic bag” of roughly 1 gram of methamphetamine in Ashley Rolland’s vagina
Former inmate Walter Unbehaun has gotten what he said he wanted when he robbed a suburban Chicago bank last year
A Pennsylvania inmate is stuck with a $132 bill for television that he claims he wasn’t even there to watch
Living alone and feeling unhappy, Walter Unbehaun decided to change his situation by committing a crime in order to get caught
Sentenced to 13 years behind bars and told to wait for instructions, but instructions never came
Daniel Athens was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution after he admitted to criminal mischief – that is, urinating on the Alamo, a historic landmark
A con man already imprisoned in a collectible coin scam was sentenced to a life term on Monday for a bizarre, behind-bars plot to decapitate a judge and a prosecutor
Man accused of harassing a neighbor and her disabled children for the past 15 years sat at a street corner Sunday morning with a sign declaring he’s a bully
A Texas jury that convicted a Houston woman of fatally stabbing her boyfriend with the 5 1/2 -inch stiletto heel of her shoe is set to hear more testimony before deciding on a sentence
From the day of his 1989 arrest in a deadly New York City shooting, Jonathan Fleming said he had been more than 1,000 miles away, on a vacation at Disney World
Christopher Maddocks, 25, pleaded no contest to a second-degree felony arson charge in February in exchange for a sentence of no more than 10 years in prison
A Missouri man has been ordered to spend four years and four months in federal prison for robbing a southern Illinois bank while clad in a wig, polka dot dress and sunglasses
Already serving a 40-year sentence for killing an ex-girlfriend
Kurtis Michael Kresal, 23, is in jail on a parole violation and a misdemeanor charge of theft
Authorities say a Georgia teen is under arrest and accused of spending about $25,000 that a bank accidentally deposited into his account
22-year-old woman was on probation for drunken driving, social media post gets her in trouble
Suspect also attended church with victim
Rhode Island State Police has been asked to investigate allegations of potential criminal activity by key correctional officials
TV’s Judge Joe Brown was jailed on a contempt of court charge issued by a Tennessee juvenile judge Monday
Convicted murderer Christian Longo offered his organ to local man Kevin Gray, who has been panhandling for a new lease on life
Police have arrested a man accused of sucking on a woman’s toes at a Wal-Mart after convincing her that he was a podiatry student
A convicted child molester is accused of sending a threatening letter to President Barack Obama — albeit to the wrong address
After the video surfaced online, SCDC increased security at its facilities this week
Man accused of killing his parents and then throwing a party with their bodies still inside their house was ordered to life in prison without the possibility of parole
Assistant Director asked CO who calls herself psychic to perform readings while he was still on duty
Life extension technologies could lead to an eternal life; what would a life sentence be like then?
Minnesota’s FCI Waseca is getting a beauty salon with all the fixings, all on the government’s tab
Crawled through holes in the wall and used bricks to threaten CO
Jailed in Ohio on child endangering charges because police say they overdosed on heroin in a McDonald’s play area
Sheriff: “He sucker punched one of our corrections officers”
‘Right now, to feed my family — I’d do it again,’ Ross says during episode of ‘RapFix Live’