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.
Luis Clarke, 25, was caught when he tried to get into an Uber car he ordered through the delivery driver’s phone
Most COs will tell you they’ve seen it all. But what about the paranormal?
An armed robber serving life in prison staged a daring escape by creeping into a cart, piled with mounds of trash, to reach freedom
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
Share their experiences of being in jail
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
Richard J. Atkinson pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and domestic-violence malicious mischief
Video shows guests, including women and children, dancing and mingling with the inmates
Nineteen-year-old Damaine Mitchell got credit for time served for marijuana possession, ending that case
Investigators believe the teen stabbed his stepfather with a Samurai-style sword following an argument
Police found her severed head in a freezer and her body parts cooking on the stove at their Oceanside home
Somehow obtained a computer and internet access, claimed it was given to him by a court order