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.
A colleague who knows I teach the discipline of staying positive dared me to find one positive thing about the release of 46 felons by our nation’s chief executive — I came up with 12
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Richard Matt, one of the prisoners who escaped Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6, has been killed
The search had been concentrating on a heavily wooded area 20 miles west of Clinton Correctional Facility
Gene Palmer became the second Clinton Correctional Facility employee to be charged since Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped
Hundreds of searchers checked ATV trails and logging roads and went door-to-door in far northern New York trying to close in on two murderers
Searchers using dogs and helicopters on Tuesday continued to focus intensely on a heavily wooded area
Items from Adirondack cabin some 20 miles west of the prison were sent to labs for DNA and other testing
California inmates are dying of drug overdoses at nearly triple the national rate
Investigators tracking two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison scoured a rural area Sunday near the Pennsylvania border
The suspect escaped his cuffs, climbed through a hole in the cruiser’s cage, and gained control of the officer’s gun
Surveillance video that was initially deemed inconclusive and is being sent to Albany for analysis
Inmate was convicted in the shooting death of off-duty Baton Rouge police Cpl
Officials say most of the breakouts are decades old because prisons have become more secure
Day 12 of search and investigation discovered prison worker discussed a murder-for-hire plot involving her husband
Officers have steadily shifted their focus eastward along Route 374 leading from correctional facility
Prosecutors say a prison tailoring shop instructor agreed to be getaway driver for escaped inmates but got cold feet
Residents in rural New York were on edge as the manhunt for two killers stretched into a ninth day
Prison tailor shop instructor Joyce Mitchell, 51, was arraigned late Friday night on a felony charge of promoting prison contraband
About 500 state, federal and local law enforcement officers Friday began a seventh day of trying to track down the convicts, and schools in Dannemora were closed for a second day
The gang has been considered the most violent in the city
Search area appeared to be focused about 2 miles east of the prison, where the escape was discovered early Saturday
Fifth day of searching will entail going from house to house in Dannemora for cop killer and convicted murderer
State and federal law officers poured into a small town Tuesday after getting a report of a possible sighting
Circumstances that led to the release of a repeat offender who authorities say went on to kill a police officer will be part of an inquiry being launched
Investigators are looking into whether civilian employees or private contractors helped two murderers obtain the power tools they used to break out
Richard Matt and David Sweat staged what Gov. Andrew Cuomo called “a really elaborate, sophisticated operation”
David Sweat is serving a sentence of life without parole after he was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a Broome County sheriff’s deputy in 2002
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Deputies’ safety is at risk because the department cannot account for the whereabouts of every inmate in the system
Two staff members were assaulted and one inmate was shot as officers tried to break up gathering
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