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.
A self-styled prophet who helped lead a Utah doomsday cult that believed in polygamy pleaded guilty to sodomy and child bigamy charges
Inmates housed in an aging lockup flooded a Kentucky police chief’s office with sewage by flushing jumpsuits and shredded bedding down the toilets
Death row inmate Robert Van Hook also was “troubled by increasing questions about his own sexual identity,” his federal public defenders said
Prisoner said he meant to fire the shots into the air
Man will continue to be isolated until he is no longer contagious at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Eastern Oregon
Man plugged up the toilet in his cell at the police station, assaulted a lieutenant who went into his cell, and sprinted to freedom
Authorities have arrested a nurse accused of performing oral sex on a Charleston County jail inmate awaiting trial on murder charges
Months after the October castration attempt, Ophelia De’lonta filed a federal lawsuit claiming the state has failed its duty to provide adequate medical care because it won’t give her a sex change operation
Daniel Vagnini was arrested after reporting that he has been assaulted, then admitting he made up the story
The inmates were fighting over an MP3 player Friday night; each face charges from the argument
An officer responded to reports that police received of a male standing outside naked
Women say their underwire bras kept setting off the metal detector and they were told they had to remove them
Brian Hurley is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Springfield District Court on charges including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon
Prisoners say they were forced to play online games to build up credits that officers would then trade for real money
If convicted, the woman faces a lifetime prison sentence for each first-degree felony and a zero to 15 year sentence for each second-degree felony
Police Lt. Jeff Millard says officers were able to determine where the calls were coming from by triangulating the signal from the cell phone
Woman duped family and friends out of almost $60,000 in donations
Boy had 18 bags of the drug, handed them out to friends
Don Gorske was honored after reaching the meaty milestone during a ceremony at a McDonald’s in his hometown
A snake dealer and two other men arrested in an investigation of a fatal copperhead bite took a plea deal Monday and avoided jail
Police say she asked the officer for $10 worth of cocaine, but said she only had $2 and an Olive Garden salad in a to-go box
Authorities say an anonymous tip led investigators to Facebook posts
An inmate was physically assaulted following an apparent argument over how much orange juice another inmate was getting
Man received accelerated rehabilitation that will allow his criminal record to be cleared after two years
Man wandered into jail accidentally and got trapped
Las Cruces police were called to a motel Sunday night and found the 35-year-old man with a bloody face and a missing lower lip
John Richardson got the sausage from the self-serve counter of a Cheney, Wash., grocery store and ate it while he shopped
An inmate at the Erie County Correctional Facility lost a tooth trying to break up a fight between two officers
An inmate in the Sequoyah County Jail, who has known he was HIV positive for 12 years has been charged with assault and battery on a detention officer
Woman technically has no fixed address
Kimberly Betty Prestby was allegedly being booked into the jail when she became uncontrollable and bit a correctional officer