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.
Officials say she was told how to get out of the building but she got lost and ended up in a stairwell where all the doors were locked
The inmate filed a $5 million lawsuit accusing authorities of refusing to treat his painful erection that lasted four days
The inmate said he was allergic to onions and was placed on a special diet that excluded them
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
A Yelp review of the local correctional facility offers some behind-the-scenes insights about life behind its bars
Calif. judge asked to apologize to victim’s family for officiating killer’s wedding after sentencing
Superior Court Judge Patricia Cookson married the inmate and his girlfriend after sentencing him to 53 years in prison
Colorings may be used to conceal drugs, officials say
Identity thief Thomas Hunter lived as Bradley Scott for more than 10 years, including serving prison sentences in two states
3 men planned to break into the woman’s home, tie her up, and break into a safe
Marvin Snyder has been arrested multiple times for continuously refusing to stop calling the woman
William Chance wants to connect to the spirits of his dead parents from his prison cell
Matthew Cordle, 22, had faced up to 8.5 years in prison
Admitted he made the call because he had forgotten to fill out the paperwork for the wedding
The Canadian owner of Best Gore faces prison for ‘corrupting morals’
Page contained photos taken inside a corrections facility
Prime Minister once said the idea of prisoners voting makes him ‘sick’
Where do you put inmates who tell on tattle-tales — a nursery?
Using a smuggled cell phone camera
Refused to remove toilet paper hanging in his cell
Patrick O’Sullivan had hoped to kill his alleged victim and a witness and offered a fellow inmate $23K to make it happen
For at least nine years, someone was filching quarters from storage lockers at Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem
Allentown man attacked ex-girlfriend, her uncle in fight over video game system
Allegedly pushed the officer down, grabbed his keys, pushed him into a cell and locked the door
Already serving life sentence for 1990 gang rape
The wedding ceremony was highly unusual