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.
The publisher of a weekly newspaper in south Mississippi says he unwittingly gave a car ride to a convicted murderer who had just escaped from a state prison
A prison inmate serving a life term for two murders is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota. And it’s legal
The helicopter pilot who was forced to take part in the jailbreak of Redoine Faid has told of how he was taken by surprise, beaten with pistol butts and threatened
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
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