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 prison identification card of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has sold at auction for more than $11,000
A group of inmates is tending to 200 roosters at an Arkansas sheriff’s office pending their use as evidence against 137 people arrested at a cockfight
After spending about 38 of the last 39 years in prison, police said Paul H. Borroni apparently wanted to go back
Will serve a year of probation and faces a year in jail if arrested for anything other than a minor traffic violation
The caffeine-intoxication strategy is unusual, but has succeeded in court at least once before
Will serve 90 days in jail and won’t be allowed to work as a public employee in the state
Neither the boy, nor his family, knew she escaped from prison back in 1975
A British judge told the star his addiction to marijuana put him and the public at risk
After making the controversial comparison, the judge also told the drug dealer that he would have been executed in some countries for such drug crimes
The man, who was stabbed in the head with an ice pick, was a central figure in the rioting throughout Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood in 1991
They punched out a ceiling panel, then knocked a hole in the metal siding of the building
Police arrested the climber at the top of the 58 story building
Hadley Jons posted that defendant was guilty before trial ended
La. minister was accidently placed behind bars for nearly 8 hours
Scott Lackey, of Pa., threw a television remote control at his 8-year-old son’s head
Kayd Thorp, 24, escaped from police Tuesday afternoon at the Brisbane airport
Says she uses gin-soaked raisins to treat her arthritis
An 85-year-old man was arrested for trying to smuggle pot to his grandson in prison
Welfare recipients would get employment training and take “personal hygiene” lessons from prison dorm homes
A Calif. security guard has been suspended for excessive force on a deaf suspect who couldn’t hear alarm
Police say the boy was hurt badly enough to be treated for a “visible injury”
Nichols didn’t support his claims that the prison’s food amounts to cruel and unusual punishment
A Texas resident called Florida’s abuse hot line after seeing the picture online
Police found more than 3 grams of crack cocaine during a search after the outburst
The woman was hit but survived
He was rushed to the E.R. and briefly hospitalized
Man also charged in a similar incident at a Michaels craft store in Gaithersburg
Judge Leonard Zito said he had never gotten such a request before
When he arrived at the prison an inmate opened the front door to let him in
39-year-old Curtis Scott was sentenced to 64 years
He was stuck in a chimney for over 6 hours
The 13-year-old boy escaped