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.
Dayshawn Allen, 23, called the officer to his cell and then threw urine on the CO
Sixty-two-year-old Herbert Rodgers had been serving a 30- to 70-year prison sentence in Pennsylvania and died Monday
Officer John Moore was sitting in his vehicle eating a biscuit in the parking lot when Natasha Dawn Mencia tried to get in the passenger side
Four other inmates were wounded
Prisoners now wear hot-pink shirts and yellow-and-white pants
South Korean couple convicted of starving their baby to death while playing an online game raising a virtual child
Man is sitting behind bars and refusing to reveal his identity to a federal judge
Photos were withheld by prison pornography policy
Homosexuality is illegal in at least 37 countries in Africa including Malawi
James Neal guilty of leading Calif. sheriff’s deputies on a freeway chase in his Corvette
A West Philadelphia man has been found guilty of shooting teens after one gave him a “funny look”
Promises of amnesty and $200 brought more than 100 fugitives to claim their ‘prize’
Prosecutors would be able to charge parents with misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail
Bradley Norris was taken from jail to the hospital where he escaped custody
Arrested after failing to break down door
Zhao Zuohai, 57, was declared innocent after 10 years in jail
Raymond Towler served nearly 30 years of his life sentence for the rape of an 11-year-old-girl
An Indiana prison is crediting an unusual suspect in helping offenders rehabilitate themselves prior to being released into society
Citizen’s bear hug leads to arrest of two criminals
Suspect was wanted on methamphetamine charges
Woman pretended glass shard in bottle injured daughter
Keith Simmonds Jr. escaped from the back of a police car and tried to remove his prints
Jimmy Graham Jr. was also charged for stealing fishing pole out of neighbors garage
The man rode into a crowd at the Mule Day festival and started asking for beer
Cpl. reprimanded after shocking female officer in behind
Man abused by assistant Scoutmaster to receive $1.4 million