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.
John Manard escaped in 2006 with the help of a woman who ran a dog rehabilitation program; A CO who recognized the woman did not thoroughly search the van at the time
“What will happen to you and your body when I’m located & you didn’t report me: you overlook’d me continuously?” the letter said
The inmate made the bombs at some point during a four-month period and mailed them to courthouses in Alaska and D.C.
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
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
