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.
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
Alexander Villa, 25, was charged with fatally shooting Clifton Lewis during a botched robbery
The rigorous, six-month training teaches carefully selected inmates the ins and outs of designing and launching technology firms
Johnathan Sanchez, 25, also known as “J Boi,” was captured early Sunday in east Harris County by the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders and Fugitives Task Force
Scott M. Davis Jr., 23, was convicted of two counts of assault and armed criminal action for the drug-fueled beating of the cop and a woman
Mario Dion Woodward was sentenced to death in the fatal shooting of Montgomery Officer Keith Houts
No Shave November raises money for cancer patients and increases awareness of men’s health, specifically prostate cancer
Transgender individuals may be housed based on the gender they identify with instead of their biological sex
His sententce brought a close to a case that exposed FBI corruption so deep that many people across the city thought he would never be brought to justice
John Vincent, 25, admitted to having a hypodermic needle and spoon in his car but promised that was all
Authorities said in a statement that three inmates have acknowledged to stabbing the victims to death with makeshift knives
Both had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport or receive stolen property and conspiracy to extort
A second suspect was arrested and charged in the abduction and killing of a couple and their son
The Department of Corrections is shifting to more gender-specific treatment of women behind bars
Michael Addison was convicted of gunning down Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006
The deputy who was stabbed sustained a half inch long cut and was treated by the jail’s medical staff
Prosecutors would not reveal their recommendation as the self-imposed deadline approached
Officer Michael Hart has been arrested and charged with felonies in connection with an incident caught on video that shows him allegedly shoving a woman into a jail cell
Elijah Foster-Bey, 20, was convicted of assault for the 2010 shooting of NYPD Det. Ricardo Ramirez
It appears the men opened a trap door above the jail showers and crawled outside