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.
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
Technology tracks individual bookings and provides alerts related to individuals who have been booked more than five times in a three-year period
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
Prosecutors will appeal a judge’s ruling that they cannot use a coerced confession man gave to police while high on heroin
Request for parole included letters by officials from 11 police agencies who said Rene Enriquez had helped with investigations and prosecutions
17-year-old was seen running away from the Springfield Regional Medical Center wearing an orange jail jumpsuit and no shoes
Sam Gene Harris has lived under at least 10 different aliases and escaped from two other jails
Brown read a lengthy statement before he was sentenced, saying he broke the law to reveal illegal government activity going unpunished
Rodella, who was in plain clothes at the time, said Tafoya was a reckless driver whom he was trying to stop in the interest of public safety
Christeson would have been the 11th man executed in Mo. last year, but the Court put his execution on hold in Oct. while it considered his appeal
