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.
Augustus Standingrock’s plea was part of a deal with prosecutors, who will recommend the 26-year-old be sentenced to life with the possibility of parole
From wacky courtroom appearances to oddball encounters, 2018 had no shortage of bizarre news in corrections
The shoe collection includes brands Gucci, Jimmy Choo and Louis Vuitton, and is estimated to be worth $23,500
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
When deputies entered for a probation check, they found 34 pounds of marijuana and five-foot alligator
The two being stalked were Rikers Island corrections officers
Unidentified woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of numerous non-life-threatening injuries
The guards noticed the cat walking towards them with tape around its back and stomach
Nearly five years ago, Mohammed Rahim al-Afghani became the last prisoner sent to Guantanamo
Wrapped the victim’s body in a blanket, put it in the closet and told his family, “‘Don’t go into my room,”’
Inmate sought to change his name to Manasseh-Invictus Auric Thutmose V, in line with his constitutional right to practice the Wiccan religion
One inmate took another’s personal information and gave it to his mother to use to apply for student loans
Was being transported and checked for medical complaint
Prosecutors say the 63-year-old sold his prescription oxycodone medication to other inmates for candy bars
Paid a mentally disabled man to have his hand cut off
Inmate denied making the phone call, but it wasn’t difficult to trace it back to him
Inmate had an image of Bieber tattooed on his leg and plotted to kill him after his attempts to contact the 18-year-old pop star failed
Jurors deliberated for more than three hours before finding her guilty of the first-degree murder charge
The man was too large to fit between the walls in an attempted escape from a Brazilian prison
Could end up serving more time than her grandson
Investigation also led to the arrests of two women believed to be prostitutes contacted by the man through a website
Intended to kill wealthy man and then blame the crime on the man’s cat
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One staff member at the prison has been reassigned and another went on leave after the start of an internal investigation
The department’s hope is to find matches of DNA evidence from blood, semen or strands of hair, or skin under the fingernails of victims that link the long-dead killers to the coldest of cold cases
A Manhattan jury did not buy the idea that Renato Seabra was out of his mind when he choked, bludgeoned and mutilated Carlos Castro
Told authorities she “wanted something to do,” so she broke into a house and cleaned it
He apologized to the girl and her family in a statement Tuesday