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 inmates were part of a work crew when they consumed hand sanitizer and broke out through a gate last month
The inmate was still wearing the jail-issued yellow jumpsuit when authorities found her in the tub
Used phony credentials to get into multiple city lockups, including Rikers Island and the Manhattan Detention Center, where he mingled with inmates for hours
Judge ordered Matthew Herrmann, 19, to read his paper to the victim of the attack
Penelope Soto gained notoriety for giving a judge the bird during a court hearing
Men had been drinking alcohol together and that the victim apparently made a pass at other’s’ girlfriend
Remains were stuffed in four bags and scattered along four blocks
The attack unfolded before witnesses and surveillance cameras on Chinatown’s main thoroughfare
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