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.
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
Officer William S. Kern, 46, was found guilty of reckless endangerment when he shot police recruit Raymond Gray
Joseph Ramos was being booked into jail and stepped onto the X-ray machine; a dark mass in his stomach revealed the jewelry
Daniel J. Preziosi may be wearing a thermal shirt and pants and apparently fled in a 1993 Toyota Camry with heavy front-end damage
Charles Craig Broaderick was charged with battery for hitting the inmates head on the wall after he spit
A man who for decades insisted Chicago police tortured him until he confessed to a rape he did not commit, walked out of prison after 30 years
John Powers, 54, emerged from the bathroom with blood dripping from his left ear after the father followed him in there
The investigation into corruption and civil rights abuses led to the arrests Monday of 16 of the 18 defendants
Jerry Martin, 43, apologized to the family of Susan Canfield, who suffered a fatal head injury when Martin and another inmate escaped from a work detail
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