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.
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It became clear to authorities that Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s escape must have involved inside help on a grand scale
A jail clerk entered in the incorrect location for Dylann Roof’s drug arrest in February
End of three week manhunt for Richard W. Matt and David Sweat is linked back to a spilled bottle of gin
In a scheme befitting a caper movie, Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1.5-kilometer (1 mile) tunnel
David Sweat, who was shot and wounded during his June 28 capture, was taken early Sunday from Albany Medical Center to the infirmary at the Five Points Correctional Facility
Remains in stable condition, while body of partner in escape has been handled in accordance with family
Months after he was released from prison for robbing a bank 5 years earlier, he was arrested for doing it again
David Sweat told police that he masterminded the June 6 escape
The Clinton Correctional Facility Superintendent and the Deputy Superintendent are among those on leave
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Initially the two convicts planned on fleeing to Mexico, but headed toward Canada on foot when their ride backed out
Convicted murderer David Sweat was shot by police Sunday
Troopers with guns drawn searched a cabin in Malone and other officers carrying rifles manned checkpoints and examined cars
Officers continued to focus Saturday on rugged terrain west of Clinton Correctional Facility as they looked for Sweat
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
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