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.
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
Unfortunately for Robert Lewis Bridges, the men and women wearing the uniform of the Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office refused to allow complacency to creep into the picture
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
An armed and dangerous Freddy Swanson, 23, made the escape Christmas Day and is still at large
Prosecutors say Soto’s role was to monitor the delivery of 346 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a shipping container
Four year sentence has essentially turned into a life sentence after a series of elaborate escapes that earned inmate the nickname “prison Houdini”
We owe law enforcement a big thank you for ridding the streets of these most violent offenders this year
Union wants answers on why an anti-cop music video was filmed inside of the Nassau County Jail, by former inmates
The department has been beset with allegations of inmate abuse by deputies and costly lawsuits
With more than 60 percent of jail inmates awaiting trial and many unable to afford bail, reforms focus on data to predict who can safely be released
Less than an hour after she was released on Thanksgiving, Shaday Gamble was back behind bars
Drug smuggling is up at many county jails and one reason, sheriff’s officials say, is that some parolees are getting arrested just so they can try to sneak narcotics behind bars
A man who stabbed his co-worker dozens of times then cut out his heart and put it in his jacket pocket has been released from prison
Lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow the practice again to avoid problems with lethal-injection drugs
A man who spent nearly four decades in prison after being convicted of murder is expected to be freed Friday after a witness confessed he lied
Woman suspected of stealing a vehicle tried to escape from custody by climbing through ceiling tiles at a hospital where she was being treated