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.
After spending about 38 of the last 39 years in prison, police said Paul H. Borroni apparently wanted to go back
Lamarr Chambers’ lawyer said the suspect “would rather die” than go to the toilet
A Florida sheriff says rooms are available and a new retro-neon sign purchased with drug-seized assets features a blinking “vacancy” light
Officer used neighbors computer to avoid getting in trouble
Mexico’s federal interior department blames the escape on local authorities, saying they did not properly guard the facilit
U.S. Postal Service carrier said he was only trying to cheer up a 21-year-old female law firm employee
Malcolm Alarmo King was able to celebrate Festivus three times a day thanks to a judge recognizing the “holiday”
Robber could theoretically get out of prison at age 90, when he would no longer be a threat to the public.
The man put money on the counter and splashed the clerk’s face with the cocoa when she opened the register.
Inmate claims his dental problems resulted from withheld toothpaste
The 20-year-old man believes he is a vampire and goes by the nickname “Vamp”
Pot plant decorated with Christmas Lights found in man’s living room
Students are accused of threatening to kill the school principal, an assistant principal and a police officer with a 12-gauge shotgun in a poem
The Espanola, New Mexico officer was reportedly hired because the department was desperate for a female officer
The state is paying a cosmetologist up to $150 a day during man’s trial to cover his tattoos.
Valued at over $5,400
Public safety director rips ‘Turnstile Justice’
The judges overturned the 1984 murder convictions of Bobby Jo Maxwell because of its basis on a jailhouse snitch’s lies
Inmates have sued six times claiming that being forced to listen to the Christmas songs 12 hours a day was in violation of their civil and religious rights and a cruel and unusual punishment
Officer had warned him to leave a clinic where he had been cursing at an office manager
Man had failed sobriety test and been arrested when he urinated on the cruiser
Former bunny was also an ex-police officer convicted of murder
Rules were created after an inmate executed on May 13 recited prayers for 17 minutes
Man says he hit his 94-year-old roommate because he was angered by the other man’s singing
The rural Wisconsin man, apparently enraged by Bristol Palin’s “Dancing with the Stars” routine, blasted his television with a shotgun
More than 120 inmates have been caught illegally collecting unemployment benefits
Teachers found 17 small plastic bags containing crack cocaine in the girl’s shoe after she complained that her foot hurt
Andrew DeMarchis and Kevin Graff had a brisk business selling cupcakes, cookies, brownies and Rice Krispie treats
Amid claims about denial of medical treatment to prisoners, Butyrka prison is adopting some interesting new policies
Man lit up a marijuana joint, instead of a cigar, to celebrate his child’s birth at a western Pennsylvania hospital
Inmate rejects previous agreement which would give her state-issued women’s underwear; instead wants state funded sex change