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.
American cops are “force multipliers in counterterrorism,” says Fred Burton, one of the world’s foremost authorities on terrorists and terrorist organizations
An Okla. pharmacy will not provide a drug for a scheduled execution next week in Mo. as part of a settlement with the death row inmate’s attorneys
Amanda Baker, 24, was pronounced brain dead after a teen inmate strangled her Friday
Former Black Liberation militants Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom will again go before the state Parole Board to ask for freedom
An Ariz. jail inmate escaped by climbing two walls and crawling through razor wire and was reportedly meeting his sweetheart on Valentine’s Day
Albuquerque police have released body camera footage capturing a tense traffic stop on Jan. 12
Joseph Schabert managed to deploy the extinguisher while in handcuffs
A Santa Ana detective testified Monday that she posed as an inmate, going undercover into the jail cell of a defendant in a high-profile beating case
A man being booked into the Rutherford County Jail allegedly threatened jail staff with a gun concealed in a cast on his right foot
Judges gave Calif. two more years to meet court-ordered prison population cap, the latest step in a long-running lawsuit aimed at improving inmate medical care
Michael Elliot, who was discovered missing during an inmate count at the Ionia Correctional Facility, was arrested Monday, driving a stolen vehicle
A woman who escaped from a Michigan prison nearly 37 years ago has been found living under an alias in San Diego
Authorities were able to capture the suspect after he attempted to flee from a traffic stop
The 10-year veteran said she cut out the suspect’s weave to prevent her from harming herself
The last federal execution was in 2003
The lawsuit also alleges the drug maker that produced the medications illegally allowed them to be used for an execution and should be prohibited
Edgar Tamayo, 46, received a lethal injection Wednesday night for the January 1994 fatal shooting of Officer Guy Gaddis
A gasping, snorting Dennis McGuire took 26 minutes to die
Footage shows inmates fighting inside the soon-to-be-closed, privately run Avalon Correctional Center
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
The man had the weapon hidden in his belt buckle
The move was prompted by companies that scour law enforcement sites such as his for booking photos then charge to have them removed
Office has been using the technology since 2007 to book inmates and ensure they’ve caught the correct person
Robert Vick, 42, walked into a motel and asked the clerk to call police because he couldn’t stand the cold temperatures
He will be executed for the 1980 fatal stabbing of Death Row state corrections Officer Richard Burke, killed couple in ’75
Barry Baldwin, a 37-year-old Brooklyn resident, has been charged with hate crimes for knocking women unconscious in a Jewish neighborhood
Michael Clifton Baskett, 54, pushed a delivery woman out of the way of danger and was killed
The congressional push comes as President Barack Obama and his Cabinet draw attention to the issue of mandatory sentences, particularly for nonviolent drug offenders
The 32-year-old Tunisian asked police if her could serve the rest of his sentence in jail to escape his wife
Edward Clinton Jones was charged with solicitation of murder for asking a man to help him find someone to ‘finish off’ his wife
Darnell King approached the officer’s open garage and threatened him with a gun, the officer led him into the house and shot him