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.
“What will happen to you and your body when I’m located & you didn’t report me: you overlook’d me continuously?” the letter said
The inmate made the bombs at some point during a four-month period and mailed them to courthouses in Alaska and D.C.
After spending 568 days and 17 hours in jail, the man stole a Ford Crown Victoria corrections vehicle from the parking lot, Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said
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
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
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
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
No evidence was found that a twin exists
By the time officials realized the check from the “County of Voulisa” deposited by Ryan Athey was fake, Athey had already spent all the $350.24 in commissary purchases
Taylor Fender, 23, was part of an inmate crew from Putnam Corrections Institute
The prisoner told others that he intended to “either eat or drink” his victim’s mutilated body parts after the murder
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, the writer of mysteries such as “The Wrong Husband,” was arrested on Sept. 5
When deputies called the man after he didn’t return, he answered the phone and told them where he was
Auction items include gun safe, furniture, power tools
A U.S. judge ordered a convicted killer from Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation released from prison on Thursday after part of his conviction was overturned
An affidavit says at least two people saw the man having sex with a woman’s corpse in a body storage room
The couple got away with it until a real deputy called the detention center two days later
Justin Teeter Bensing had been accused of soliciting an undercover officer he thought was a girl
The jail’s owners have spent the last two decades running the imposing, 147-year-old stone building as The Old Museum Jail
Prosecutors say Christian Gulzow fatally stabbed 29-year-old Brian Lucero in the parking lot of a Denver restaurant
No trial date has been set for Austin Harrouff’s criminal charges
A Maine man has received a 10-year prison sentence for frightening a woman during a burglary and causing a fatal heart attack
The inmate was apparently complaining about his attorneys and was ordered to be silent multiple times
Native American inmates and defendants in Oklahoma have already begun appealing their convictions or asking for their cases to be dismissed on the same jurisdictional grounds
Sheriff’s officials said the inmate slipped out of his handcuffs, shattered the passenger-side window and climbed atop the patrol car
