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.
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”
During a second scan, the assistant jail commander noticed the object in the arrestee had moved
Tureygua Inaru tried to get other inmates to kill her family members and a prosecutor
The deputies’ injuries were minor
Executions have been on hold since 2014 after Joseph Rudolph Wood, who was given 15 doses of midazolam and a painkiller, took nearly two hours to die
At one point Gustavo Zavala-Garcia could be seen kicking and punching firefighters who attempted to bring him down
Jeremy Meeks took the internet by storm in 2014 with his “hot” mugshot
Two Detroit carjackers are back in prison after their victim went online and found they’d been mistakenly released
A state district judge lowered the bond to $150,000 later Friday
Matthew Ezekiel Stager was captured in Washington D.C. after two Metropolitan police officers spotted him
A spokeswoman said officials don’t want anyone to be offended and have forbidden proper names being put on stamps in the future
Thirty-five-year-old Leston Lawrence was found guilty last November of stealing the pieces from the mint and selling 17 of them
Police believe the deputy was too drunk to drive and asked the inmate to drive for him
The teens were exploring the Joliet Correctional Center that’s been closed since 2002 when one of them locked herself inside a cell
Former inmate Jeremy Meeks was released last March and has become a model
Attorney, C. Justin Brown argued for the release, saying the appeals process could take years and Adnan Syed has shown he is good candidate for release pending a new trial
Patricia Krenwinkel has been denied parole 13 times since her conviction in the 1969 slayings
An industrial mechanic convicted of attempting to produce a mobile X-ray device intended to kill Muslims has been sentenced to 30 years
There’s nothing quite like life in corrections
There are times when inmates not only respect corrections staff members, but come to their aid
Police say Doris Payne was arrested when she put a $2K necklace in her back pocket and tried to leave the store
Robert Stackowitz escaped from a prison work camp in Carrolton, Georgia, in 1968 while serving a 17-year sentence for robbery
She allegedly refused to turn down her music and stop twerking on her car
A prosecutor charged an Indiana woman with attempted murder Friday after she told police she injected fecal matter into her son’s IV tube
Responders initially responded to calls of a man walking around with only a towel on
The apparent college student attempted to hand the bouncer a slice of pizza she purchased at a nearby shop as proof of her legal age last week
Jail inmates and wild horses are helping each other learn to adapt through a California program
Passers-by alerted police after the man hid his weapon under newspapers and paced nervously as he waited for the main doors to open
The man attempted to use Cheetos to accelerate a fire at his ex-girlfriend’s home
A former inmate who practices Satanism has filed a lawsuit alleging that prison employees violated her constitutional rights by confiscating her religious materials
“His view is: He’s been in long enough” and wants to be released without probation or parole