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.
Reports say the inmate ‘did the procedure as a preventative’
The judge declared a mistrial, finding the man’s disturbance had affected the other potentials jurors
Work-release inmates helped pry open a door of the SUV for another inmate who unlocked the car with a coat hanger.
Thomas Huggins, 26, was convicted last month of animal cruelty for strangling the pit bull, Bandit, which he said had become aggressive
Asked mother to blow out the wall of jail cell to help him escape
Breaking Bad: Walter White, a meth dealer, is sentenced to prison, in a case of life imitating art
Allegedly suffers from “affluenza,” where he’s too rich to know right from wrong
Authorities charged Rosie Mae Strait, 39, with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury
The visitors will be provided with an alternate path to the jail, officials said
Shawn M. Grider expected to be sent on to a federal penitentiary to serve almost 11 years on drug and gun convictions. Instead, he was simply released
Took plumber 3 hours to fix the issue, caused $500 in damages
Man charged electric car outside middle school while son was playing tennis
Was caught red handed for sexually abusing a goat behind a bush
Henry Earl has been arrested over 1500 times
A Swedish prisoner who was scheduled to be released the next day had his sentence lengthened by a single day
David L. Harris, 18, was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison
Fellow inmate changed channel from football game to news channel
Shermain Miles says she has permanently given up booze, drugs and her old buddies
Faked a pregnancy-related problem in an effort to escape from the Livingston County jail
Either getting hitched while in prison or is looking for a way back into the limelight
Suing county commissioners, prison board, district attorney and sheriff’s deputies — but not his former death-row inmate client
Jamie Marie Sadler, 34, of Morley was charged with two counts of felony possession of a weapon/dangerous item
Monday’s court decision is the Gulf States’ crackdown on internet activism, freedom of speech and government criticism across a broad range of social media
Officials investigating incident while banning cellphones from facilities
Water Authority warned thousands not to use tap water for two days before tests confirmed water was safe
He’s been sentenced to two years and nine months for offenses such as stealing his brother’s ATM card
The defendants mistakenly believed the victim was hiding money and left him for dead on the side of the road
An inmate released from an S.C. detention center allegedly threw a rock through the door of a business across the street from the jail and waited for police to arrive
Walter Logan was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to reckless homicide in the 2012 death of 29-year-old Alex Shipp
New ordinance means library patrons could be arrested for not returning library materials
Visited the jail as part of a program aimed at helping inmates think things through, and be more thoughtful about their actions