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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.

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
The plan has so many prongs in its approach, if one doesn’t find a particular device, another one surely will
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
A regional narcotics unit determined a ‘stain’ found on the Bible contained about 30 to 40 hits of heroin
The Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) is based on a philosophy that making inmates business savvy will reduce the likelihood that they will end up back in prison
The judge in the Jodi Arias case on Wednesday denied a bid by her lawyers to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty
Prison bus skidded off an icy Texas highway, slid down an embankment and collided with a passing freight train
Officers Pat Brown and Brian Schoen were shot during an encounter with Saeed Aquil and a teenager on New Year’s Eve 1994
Budget cuts are restricting ability to safely run the facility
State prisons agency also said it will again allow the use of an anesthetic that it used from 1999 through 2011
A jail psychiatrist who saw Fabian Cruz on Wednesday at a clinic ordered that Cruz be transferred to a special observation unit
Nov. 22 gunbattles between an armed parolee and an officer and two sheriff’s deputies left the parolee dead and the officer and a bystander wounded