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.
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
Site gives inmates a chance to provide information that may implicate others involved in crimes
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
A suspect brought in for questioning later punched himself in the face and then signed an assault complaint against detectives
Postcards were laced with a hallucinogenic drug that has similar effects as LSD
A prisoner trying to escape while being transported through Terminal C at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport was shot by the officer who was escorting him
Rep. Paul Ray argues a team of trained marksmen is faster and more humane than the drawn-out deaths that have occurred in botched lethal injections
A three-time convicted robber who helped engineer the biggest prison break in Texas history was executed Wednesday evening
Attorneys for 52-year-old Donald Newbury are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his Wednesday evening lethal injection
Video released shows an officer following inmate out of the jail building, prompting the inmate to start running
