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 inmate wrote letters threatening to kill public officials as well as demanding his release; all letters had “Inmate Mail” stamps and at least two letters had his DNA on them
The suspect, who had just escaped from the Glades County Jail exercise yard, stole a truck that was running while unoccupied and led deputies on a pursuit
While awaiting sentencing of 10 years to life, David Lettieri has filed 51 lawsuits since November engaging “in a pattern of abuse of the judicial process”
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
Lisa Harding was also ordered to pay back money taken during a third bank robbery, even though that charge was dismissed under a plea agreement
Brandon Kiehm claimed he urgently needed money for cancer treatments for relatives
The Department of Education paid out about $582,000, including $419,000 in debit cards intended for living expenses
“It’s going to be a food fight,” said probate attorney Adam Streisand
The caller identified himself as Antwone Wilson, who is one of the two inmates who escaped from the St. Clair prison Monday
The book “Where’s Waldo? Santa Spectacular” is among the 10,000 books banned from Texas prisons, but Adolf Hitler’s autobiography “Mein Kampf” makes the cut
Last December, probation officer Luke Ellison ripped his pants while chasing down an offender who fled
The suit alleges that the CIA spied on Kelley via GPS tracking that would have caused him to “act out”
Firefighters took almost two hours to remove the bags of trash and free the man from the truck’s compactor section
Melissa Ann Blair shared a long kiss with and Anthony Powell and passed seven balloons filled with meth into his mouth, two of which ruptured in his stomach
A juvenile user died after ingesting fentanyl that was distributed by Michael Chandler
Jimmy Sabatino told a federal judge the only way to stop him from committing cons is to keep him from contacting the outside world
Luis Guzman, 28, was arrested after he reportedly threw feces at a passing CO and an inmate who was being escorted by the officer
The call came after Dante Spence, 31, killed Gary Carter, 45, over a drug dispute
Both inmates face charges of felony aggravated harassment by a prisoner
Linda Herlong Jackson, 67, was placed on administrative leave after the incident
The inmate was bitten after she tried to break up a fight between two dogs
A syringe, 14 stimulant pills, 40 packets of heroin and rolling papers were found on the inmate as a result of the procedure
The lawsuit says the erection began after he swallowed an unidentified pill he got from another inmate
COs at a federal prison in central Florida say they intercepted a threatening letter from Richard Jeremy Ware when he tried to send it out this past March
According to prosecutors, 26-year-old Kendell Rashad Bowden stole credit card information and accidentally texted his probation officer the victim’s information
According to the lawsuit, 27-year-old Marques Davis pleaded for help as his symptoms worsened
Authorities say 40-year-old Charlotte Carman took $180 from her ex-boyfriend after stabbing him and used part of the stolen funds to pay for the tattoo
The inmates visited their girlfriends, smoked marijuana and then walked back to the jail
The inmates had their request to marry consistently denied because corrections officials are unwilling to transport either of them to the other’s prison for a wedding ceremony, or allow them to marry via video
Carlos Rafael pleaded guilty in March to false labeling and fish identification and tax evasion, among other charges
A U.S. fishing magnate known as “The Codfather” pleaded guilty to evading fishing quotas and smuggling money to Portugal
