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 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.
The comedian says he’s a political prisoner, lumping himself with civil disobedience icons MLK, Gandhi and Mandala
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”
Given 29 months in prison for driving high with two young daughters in the car
Allegedly ripped out a round metal seat that had been welded and bolted to the floor
Discovered after she allegedly reacted aggressively when asked by a security official how far into her pregnancy she was
The one-time day laborer admitted slashing young women across the behind using a razor blade or box cutter
Members of the public have been asking for years to get hitched inside the old prison but the logistics were too difficult to arrange
Drew nickname from contraband mother passed to him in a peanut butter jar while incarcerated
Had the pills been genuine, they would have been valued at more than $750,000, prosecutors said
Rodents have been a nagging problem in the aging and dilapidated building
Lawyer for one inmate claims COs gave his client the novel as a joke or attempt to discredit him
Male officer punched in face before female officer attacked as she intervened
Over more than eight years, he brought home $210,000 worth of quarters which he dutifully rolled and packed in $500 boxes to be exchanged for cash at banks on his lunch hour
Stabbed him with a fork, then left him tied up in duct tape until he was able to make his escape
About 29 staff members were held hostage during the uprising
Partnership announced Wednesday between the Southeastern Correctional Complex in Lancaster and the Columbus Zoo will provide about 300 pounds of frozen trout a month for the zoo’s dozen-plus penguins
A prison-wide program called the Lotus Flower project, inmates are crocheting high-end clothing in exchange for a modest salary and reduced prison sentences
Allegedly left the jail on foot, escaped Saturday around midnight
Investigation underway, details vague
Believed neighbor’s poodle had impregnated his dog several times
Was told he’d get a bag of coffee for completing the dare
Bragged about being “on killa mode,” and hash-tagging that “all dogs don’t go to heaven”
First married in 1984, married again in 2005
Used same method to kill inmate as he did his girlfriend one year ago by strangulation, then stuffing toilet paper down throat
Part of her sentence for issuing state ID cards and driver’s licenses to immigrants who entered the country illegally
These stories make you wonder why inmates have the right to sue at all
Carrie Waldo, whose 4-month-old boy lost most of his fingers to the ferret, last month pleaded guilty to second-degree child endangerment
Prosecutors say the murder of Amelia Espinoza was part of a satanic ritual