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.
A sheriff is turning himself in for a night in jail to learn more about prisoners’ complaints on living conditions
The officer tested above the DOC’s legal limit for morphine in 2016 after eating a poppy seed bagel before a drug test
The inmates were part of a work crew when they consumed hand sanitizer and broke out through a gate last month
Made a sarcastic comment online about shooting up a school
At least one of the officers was seriously injured by the inmate
He is one of three former inmates at Valley Street Jail to bring suit against the county and several corrections officers over their treatment during 2006 and 2007
“When I say ‘infestation’ I mean there were so many that it only took an hour or so for the sticky pad under the light that attracts the bugs to be completely full”
The story of how several correctional officers helped a skunk escape from prison — mostly intact
Prosecution: “It is very, very disturbing”
District Judge says inmate has filed “dozens” of suits “to harass and delay the judicial system”
Incident took place less than a month after he pleaded guilty in a case that accused him of stealing from another Mattoon restaurant
COs removed the literature, citing that it was pornographic
Fifty-nine-year-old Alf Stefan Andersson was fatally stabbed Sunday at his condominium
Set to pass a law to ban anyone on the boardwalk from wearing pants that sag more than 3 inches below the hips
Took the keys to the car and just took off
Had jail employee taste-test it to make sure “it was all right”
Prison Architect puts players in the driver’s seat of controlling a correctional facility
Eder Guzman-Rodriguez was sentenced after pleading no contest to first-degree murder
Was detained as it climbed fence of the region’s Number One corrective labour camp with two cell phones, batteries and chargers strapped to its back using tape
Judge: “While the footlocker in question was not of great value, neither was it trivial”
The problem is that some inmates toss the wrappers containing ingredients and the trash bags used in making the dish into the toilet
John Joseph Maillet’s lawsuit in Mississippi says that his snakes were worth more than $12,000 and that he didn’t have a chance to object to their forfeiture because he wasn’t properly notified of court filings
Washington Corrections Officer Brandy Boyer says if she hadn’t been 10 minutes late leaving for work Saturday morning she wouldn’t have spotted a prison escapee
Lawsuit is the second effort to fix blame and assess damages for the gruesome 2006 mishap, which resulted in the amputation of the toddler’s left leg
Requested 121 items that he claims will aid him in performing Wiccan rituals
Claims that he mailed a notarized document to his attorney in 2006 that contained nine product ideas
The man was already being investigated for indecent solicitation of a child; he’s in jail on $10k bond
Corrections officers reported a loud banging on the north wall of the jail, and a deputy saw a Chevy Suburban ramming into the jail’s outer walls
Julian Knight murdered seven people and injured 19 in Melbourne in one of the country’s worst massacres in 1987
Was about to be released and had nowhere to go
Paraphrased statement from investigator caused defense attorney to drop motion to dismiss charges
Report said the dog, named Thor, bit the inmate in the face, “biting off his left nostril”
Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez is charged with endangering the welfare of a child