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.
Authorities are searching for evidence in a very nontraditional place — an inmate’s poop
Inmates at a Boston jail quizzed the candidates at what organizers described as the first forum of its kind in the country
After nearly 68 years, the S.C. Department of Corrections gave up last week on finding escapee Herbert Simmons
Jovanie Saldana, a transgender woman, spent the last 14 months incarcerated at Riverside Correctional Facility
Man says he’s a vampire and has been alive for more than 500 years
The patient claims the surgery was supposed to be a circumcision and he never authorized the amputation
Keemonta Peterson called 911 and the boy was rushed to a hospital last October after her botched effort left the infant bleeding uncontrollably and in intense pain
A thief who was released from a New York jail so she could get a heart transplant is back behind bars — possibly for good — after she was caught shoplifting again.
Parolee Marvin Lane Ussery claims he made his way back onto prison grounds because was “reminiscing”
Chaos erupted on JetBlue’s red-eye flight from Portland, Ore., to JFK yesterday when a drunk allegedly urinated on a sleeping 11-year-old girl
Michael Kevin Lallana was arrested in July 2010 and his DNA was later matched to the water bottle
Man was booked into jail on charges including child desertion and allowing a minor to drive
The phone system charges inmate accounts for calls but refunds the money if the call doesn’t go through
Investigators have publicized his mug shot to figure out who he is, but 100 tips have led nowhere
Witnesses told police the woman gave a 40-ounce bottle of beer to the boy and ordered him to chug it down
The warrant was for felony identity theft charges
Cops believe the parents were already dead when the teen used Facebook to invite friends to his house for a party Saturday night
Daniel Self says he suffers from sleep apnea and he ordered corrections officers not to resuscitate him if he stopped breathing
Anthony Garcia is accused of handing out tainted yogurt samples
Pogos Paul Sefilian, of Sandy, Utah, faces a federal charge of interference with a flight crew
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio began issuing pink underwear to inmates more than 15 years ago to cut down on theft
Trooper: “Some of the plants were five feet tall”
Man kept 4-foot reptile to impress women, cops allegedly told
Man strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport
Tyell Morton put a blow-up sex doll in a bathroom stall, causing officials to call a bomb squad
Kyle Richards says denying his request for erotic material subjects him to a “poor standard of living”
Woman was caught trying to sneak her common-law-husband out of a Mexican prison in a suitcase following a conjugal visit
The bill was prompted by the arrest of a man authorities said adopted a dog with the intent to have sex with it
Woman believed grandson ate too much bacon at breakfast and didn’t leave enough for everyone else
New law says prisoners will get one day knocked off their sentences for every 12 hours in the classroom
Jail officials agreed to allow the couple to exchange vows inside the jail’s visiting area on Monday
Nancy Wilkins, of Brooklyn, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy for selling blank pages out of her boss’ prescription pad for $100 apiece
Rules designed to douse the desire of “sex-starved” prisoners