Corrections
The Corrections topic covers the duties performed by sheriff’s departments and other police agencies that straddle the line between patrolling the streets and guarding inmates in correctional facilities, county lock-ups, prisons, jails, and courthouses.
Jails must continue to fill a vital role within the public safety and criminal justice realms while battling the coronavirus
Two incidents, 20 years apart, demonstrate the perils of early release of inmates
Grants available to support security, technology, training and vehicle needs for prisoner transport
The inmate seized a gun from one of the troopers as they were driving the inmate back to prison from a court hearing
The 5-year-old Belgian Malinois named Jake suddenly became ill on July 18 after he came into contact with a drug known as flakka during a prison contraband sweep
The post was in response to outrage over cops being doused with water
The early Democratic front-runner’s plan aims to reduce incarceration, end the federal death penalty and expand the DOJ’s role in investigating police departments
First Step Act gives judges more sentencing discretion, eases mandatory minimum sentences and aims at reducing recidivism
The inmate asked the LEO to help him move a mattress in his cell. When the LEO went inside the cell, the inmate attacked him
The Renewed for Reentry Program is expected to be launched in September
Attorney General William Barr’s visit to a medium-security prison and minimum-security camp signaled a major policy shift since his first stint as AG in the early ‘90s
The inmate is one of seven escaped prisoners blamed for the 2000 slaying of a Dallas-area police officer
The 1980 shooting, which news accounts described as one of the bloodiest in Orange County history, also wounded two officers and two bar patrons
Model pretrial jail programs provide withdrawal management and medication-assisted treatment for jail detainees
The log of photos is helpful to LEOs in the field because it’s another tool they can use to identify dangerous suspects
Immigration rights groups are calling the sheriff’s moves a “bait and switch” because inmates are still being given to ICE
The two good Samaritans stopped an inmate who attacked the LEO while being transported to a hospital
The officer was shot inside a police vehicle during a struggle with an inmate
The sheriff says he can’t rely on the integrity of LEOs in their neighboring town and will not book any suspects whom they arrest for the foreseeable future
Police say a man was shot outside the jail after he charged at a LEO with a knife
After learning he is being admitted to a psych facility, a psychiatric patient launches a violent attack on two officers
Sheriff said he wasn’t willing to continue operating a jail “that is not funded to meet the minimum standards required” or to stand by while more staffers are laid off
The inmate was granted parole after serving more than 37 years behind bars for her role as the getaway driver in a robbery that left two LEOs dead
The move comes less than a month after Gov. Newsom announced a moratorium on executing any inmates
The inmate has painted murals to honor law enforcement
Closed-circuit video of Wednesday’s jailhouse bond court session shows William Green, 27, attacking public defender Julie Chase from behind
The inmate’s attorneys say he should be spared because he didn’t fatally shoot the Irving, Texas police officer
An escaped inmate was arrested after a pursuit and standoff with police that lasted for more than two hours
Police say the inmate was found trying to hide in the attic space of a garage
Notable inmates out of more than 700 people on the nation’s largest death row
The justices ruled 5-3 on Wednesday in favor of inmate Vernon Madison, who killed a police officer in 1985
The former officer’s lawyers say prosecutors have no right to challenge his current prison term
Prosecutors have insisted on seeking the death penalty