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.
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
For ambushing and assassinating NYPD Patrolman Waverly Jones and Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, Herman Bell should call Great Meadow Correctional Facility “home” until the day he meets his maker
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
Police sought answers Wednesday from a retired corrections officer after his dispute with a pair of strangers ended with a fatal shooting
If the governor signs the measure, Utah would become the only state to allow executions by firing squad if there is a drug shortage
A judge tossed Woods’ conviction in September after new DNA tests linked the Reno crime to an Oregon inmate
Riot at a juvenile rehabilitation center has put a neighboring town “at its wits’ end” following the latest in a series of violent uprisings
Oklahoma would become the first state to allow the execution of inmates using nitrogen gas under bill
Gomez and his accomplices were arrested without a shot fired, after a months-long intelligence stakeout
Lengthy questionnaire is the latest tool among the nation’s court systems to try to predict the likelihood that an offender will commit a crime again
The Mac’s Prisoner Transport Lift allows officers to lift high risk offenders strapped into a restraint chair into the vehicle
Inmates had set fires and caused significant damage after taking over part of the facility
Brown said Enriquez has taken positive steps, but they were “outweighed by negative factors that demonstrate he remains unsuitable for parole”
State employee’s smart-alecky comment on Facebook about being “groped” by corrections officers has gotten him fired
Officer was in the weapons room at the back of the courthouse when the gun discharged, striking the officer in the upper leg
Rene “Boxer” Enriquez is serving a life sentence for ordering the killing of one woman and for fatally shooting a man five times in the head
