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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Move was also made to encourage better inmate behavior
Inmates find all kinds of ways to make contraband cellphones work for them. Now, authorities are finding a way to make the phones work for them, too
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
The override vote — passed by the narrowest possible margin — drew a burst of applause from death penalty opponents
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
Sheriff fired nine of his deputies Friday in connection with the death of a 22-year-old college student found dead in restraints after he was booked
Akorn strongly objects to the use of its products in capital punishment the company said in the March 4 letter
Virginia has sent only six people to death row in the last nine years after sending 40 over the previous eight years
Wagner said Sgt. Matt Nickey, the ranking officer at the scene, reasonably believed he needed to shoot Leipold to prevent others from being hurt or killed
Attorneys Robert Lynn Pruett, 35, had several appeals before the justices hours before he was scheduled to be executed
Lethal injection is the default method of execution in South Carolina; inmates may also choose electrocution
An inmate at a California state prison was shot and killed to stop an attack on another who had fallen to the ground unconscious
San Francisco could become the first place in the state to try the technology in a jail
Ambulances were dispatched when an SUV carrying two law enforcement dogs caught fire
Public Defender Jeff Adachi said four deputies at the County Jail threatened inmates with violence if they did not fight each other
Says he walked out in 2013 determined to fix some of the injustices he saw from the inside
One of the officers is in the intensive care unit at a local hospital, requiring facial reconstruction
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