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.
Inmates used illegal cellphones to pose as underage women on dating sites, authorities said Wednesday
Deputies say the inmates drank sanitizer from a container in the jail van, took off on a four-wheeler and broke through a gate while on work detail
Joshua Gullat was cleaning bathrooms at the jail when he slipped out a side door and through a gate
Gouged out the eyes of another inmate
Inmate refused to comply because it was against his religious beliefs
Wanted the victim to pay more attention to her
Twenty-seven-year-old Emilio Mendoza, of Stamford, was arraigned Wednesday in Stamford Superior Court and ordered held on $50,000 bail
Smashed CO’s head against a wall before bolting outside and stripping off his jumpsuit
One inmate claimed the pork rinds were payment for braiding another inmate’s hair
Peter Mallory, former owner of WCAG-TV-33 in LaGrange, was charged Tuesday in Troup County Superior Court
“He wanted to do something that would guarantee that he would spend the rest of his life in prison, and he knew that robbing a bank with a loaded gun would accomplish that”
Confessed to killing her grandmother by stuffing a kiwi down her throat during a visit
Fight started over asking music to be turned down
Simpson’s cell is only 80 square feet, but he still has his own television
Incarcerated felons are inserting foreign objects into their genitals
Judge Tim Barnack told Richard L. Taylor on Jan. 21 that community members wondered why he wasn’t hanging from a tree
Aaron Annatone was charged with principal to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and conspiracy to commit possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
Brian Thurman, 28, was booked into Cook County Jail last month for sexually assaulting a young victim, police said
Attorney: “I’ve been a prosecutor for 26 years and I’ve never seen anything like that happen. It was unusual; it was shocking”
18-year-old Penelope Soto laughed Monday when Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat asked how much her jewelry was worth as he inquired about her financial assets
Requesting $1 million in damages
Sentenced to 3 1/2 years in military prison
Man used it after a fistfight with another man
Allegedly knocked the cell door off its hinges and ran away
Uniforms and shoes were stuck inside a sewer pipe
Became agitated when told the toilet paper was from Walmart
Group hopes video persuades young men to stop wearing their pants so low
While serving prison time in southern Minnesota for identity theft, a woman dipped into her dead mother’s bank account and stole $23,012 in Social Security benefits, federal prosecutors have alleged
Previously served 18 months in federal prison for threatening to kill former President George W. Bush in 2001
She reportedly laid on top of him, smothering him to death
He told police they had gotten into an argument and she had pushed his head while they were driving
47 stainless steel microwaves were ripped from about four dozen jail cells
Allegedly TASERed nurse for playing prank with his lunchbox