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.
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
Man wanted to show his stepdaughter he was someone not to be messed with
Sony Dong smuggled Asian songbirds into the country by hiding them under his pants
Ronnie Lee Gardner will be executed June 18
Man rectally smuggled lighter, rolling papers, marijuana, eight tattooo needles and more
Dillon Makuski was detained in a home he broke into when police found six dirty diapers on him
Charles Dennison was reportedly “very intoxicated” when the deputy arrived
He left them on the back of his cruiser and drove off
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