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.
When the suspect was questioned, he told the officers that he stole the truck only because he had just gotten out of prison and needed a means of transportation home
Court records say Billy Partington misrepresented himself and never corrected corrections’ officers when his picture was compared to his brother during the release procedure
Kirk Muckenfuss was “caught in the act” of cutting the jail fence; correction officers were waiting for him, and chased him out through the hole
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
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
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
Lakeland’s Food Technology program — one of 11 like it around the state that teach inmates the ins and outs of food service — has been a quiet success story
The sale or lease of human remains for research is unusual but mostly legal
While Anika Witt was being booked into a jail last year, a CO found a loaded Kimber .380-caliber handgun inside Witt’s vaginal cavity
Jennifer Ann Jasmaine said a North Carolina prison is blocking her from practicing witchcraft
“In my 32-year career here, this is a first,” said Valley Street jail Superintendent Dave Dionne
The inmates reportedly got a CO drunk and convinced him to let them leave on the promise that they’d return with more alcohol
Rapper DMX’s attorney pulled an unusual move in court in hopes of convincing a judge to be lenient on the rapper
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
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
Rashid Kambarov said that the state’s failure to accommodate his religion violates the First and 14th Amendments
Joshua Hansen escaped from a federal prison with the intention of breaking back in laden with bottles of alcohol and home-cooked treats
Rodwell Clay’s wife said every day she looks in the mirror she’s reminded of the attack and hopes to have surgery to further repair the damage
Inmate Ricky Dubose, one of two inmates accused of slipping out of handcuffs and killing two COs, was found with a makeshift key stashed in his hair
Graig Burrier pleaded guilty to sexual battery and got probation for attacking a woman, insisting he had to touch her belly button to pledge a fraternity
The CO said he initially asked Jean Paul Ungureanu to remove the sign, but he “babbled incomprehensibly”
A resourceful Pennsylvania wildlife conservation officer has helped to engineer a daring prison escape
State law prohibits South Carolina inmates from profiting from their crimes
A murder convict argued that the jury in his case was tainted by testimony from a witness who said God helped identify him in a photo array
