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
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
Police say she also lured her former husband to her apartment and stabbed him
Anthony Lee and his brother Diante Lamont Coakley were denied bail Sunday and will remain in jail after being charged with first-degree murder
Harry Carl Mapps, 59, was arrested at a motel after evading police for a month
An estimated 980 pounds of marijuana and 17 firearms were found when search warrants were served
The court has rejected the death-sentence appeal of Manuel Garza Jr., who was convicted in the ’01 slaying of Officer John Anthony “Rocky” Riojas
Correctional Deputy Jeremy Meyst, 31, of Visalia died of injuries received when he was ejected from an inmate transportation van
Chrisman was arrested after he shot and killed Danny Rodriguez, 28, and the man’s pit bull when he and his partner responded to Rodriguez’s home after a frantic call from his mother that her son was acting violent
The four face charges of murder, felony murder, carjacking, conspiracy, possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose
Kevin Shymel Gibbs tried repeatedyly ramming Officer Daniel Stuckey with his car
Jan Tracy Kilbourne fired at Butler County sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Lawrence during an early-morning traffic stop
Henry Goedrich Magee, 28, is suspected of capital murder for the death of Sgt. Adam Sowders
One person suffered serious head wounds when an oven inside the Santa Rita Jail exploded
The blast happened in the oven at the prison’s kitchen; one person suffered critical injuries