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.
Prosecutors informed defense attorneys for Sheila Keen Warren on Wednesday that they had found a “clown sighting file” which prosecutors said they didn’t have
27-year-old Jersey City woman recently applied for the security job with the Hudson County department, thus giving up her location
The man was in court to respond to numerous charges, including second-degree assault
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
Sgt. Bryce Heinlein says the woman told them she had found the skull and led them to an abandoned homeless camp a couple blocks away
As the verdict was announced, Jeffrey Scott Jones picked up a small razor blade and sliced his throat
Arnold Ray Jones is the only inmate so far to decline President Obama’s offer of clemency
Authorities say Austin Harrouff is being released from the hospital and taken to jail almost two months after the attack
The incident comes a week after ‘creepy clown’ sightings and threats impacted school systems around Alabama
