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.
Work-release inmates helped pry open a door of the SUV for another inmate who unlocked the car with a coat hanger.
The comedian says he’s a political prisoner, lumping himself with civil disobedience icons MLK, Gandhi and Mandala
The inmate continuously made fake emergency calls and sent police to his mother’s home because she wouldn’t pay his bail
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
But he has to sleep in the loft so the reptile can roam free
Inmate simply walked away from work program, still wearing shirt that said ‘inmate’ on the back
Thought the GPS was turned off so he could go to work, used time to plan and commit robbery instead
Former gridiron great was recently caught pilfering cookies from cafeteria of his Nevada prison
Authorities could tell where prisoners were hiding because of cows and flock of ducks that suddenly bolted from woods
Inmate who struck the other claimed they were “just horse playing”