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.
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
With the popularity of “texting”, abbreviations are being added to gang documents and written in code
The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services implemented a managed access project in downtown Baltimore in April 2013
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
42-year-old faces lethal injection Thursday evening — more than a decade after he gunned down Ferris Police Officer Marty Steinfeldt
Gov. Jerry Brown is asking the California Legislature for $3.2M to open nearly 100 more cells for condemned men at San Quentin State Prison
The victim’s brother, Tom Gerety, called the justice system “a joke” after learning how long Harris would serve
An aunt of a convicted murderer was charged Saturday with giving her nephew information that helped him escape
Prosecutors on Wednesday moved to drop the case after new ballistics tests contradicted those done three decades ago
Taylor escaped before dawn Wednesday from the Jerome Combs Detention Center in Kankakee after beating a guard unconscious, stealing his uniform and driving off in his SUV
As the manhunt continues, Nelson Williams Sr. says he goes home every night worried the man convicted of his son’s murder could ambush him
Heavily armed officers were entering homes in the city’s southern suburbs, but there is still no sign of Kamron T. Taylor
23-year-old is considered armed and dangerous
President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentences of nearly two dozen drug convicts, including eight serving life
A prisoner being treated wrestled with a guard and took her gun before escaping in a hospital gown and fleeing in a carjacked vehicle
Deputy prisons chief Brian Connett defended the state Department of Corrections as a responsible steward of the safety and security of guards and inmates
Utah lawmakers say they took a pragmatic approach in approving the firing squad as a form of execution if lethal-injection drugs aren’t available
The inmate, Gary Castonguay, is serving a sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the shooting of Plainville police Officer Robert Holcomb during a burglary
Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law approving the method’s use when no lethal injection drugs are available
About 8,000 erroneous notifications that inmates were being released were sent out due to the glitch
Executed Tuesday after U.S. Supreme Court and state’s governor declined to spare the 74-year-old attorneys claimed was mentally incompetent
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