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.
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Prison guards, wardens and correctional system administrators have been targeted in the past, often by convicts who had been freed after serving their sentence
Authorities say 29-year-old Joseph Brown was arrested Saturday morning; charges are pending
He is dead following a high-speed chase and shootout with Texas deputies, days after allegedly killing a prison chief and pizza delivery person
There’s enough evidence to try Daniel Witczak on charges of attempted murder and child molestation, according to a judge
Sheriff Sam Parker’s attorney says the sheriff got tripped up by confusing regulations but did nothing criminal
Tom Clements was killed around 8:30 pm after coming to the front door to answer it, massive manhunt underway for perpetrator
Both inmates were recaptured after escaping Quebec prison in daylight and later exchanging gunfire with police
Zachary Buza, 20, was convicted of shooting at an Indiana State Police trooper from the window of a home
She offered $4K for the two so she could bail her boyfriend out of jail; an acquaintance warned police
He is in critical condition after being found with self-inflicted cuts when police entered the motel room Tuesday to arrest him
The defense attorney said the verdict set a “dangerous precedent. People can be prosecuted for their thoughts and convicted”
Matthew Brandon Cook, Kade Reaves Stringfellow and Rodney Joe Green escaped through the ceiling of a county jail
The suspect is charged with capital murder in Thursday’s slaying of 63-year-old Master Trooper Junius Walker
Steve Johnson was sentenced Friday in the June 2002 kidnapping at Bar Veloce in the East Village
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After serving 90 days in jail, the man will stand outside a police station wearing a sign saying ‘I was an idiot’
He impersonated a Department of Correction investigator and mingled with inmates for hours
The man beat his ex-girlfriend, staged a car accident to explain her wounds, then barraged himself in his home for hours
“I want to make it crystal clear,” the judge said, “that it is my intention that the defendant serve this sentence and never get out of prison”
Court documents say Outhet “staged” firearms around the home and fired a shotgun. The documents listed emergency responders as the intended victims
Eric Williams, 34, was killed by an inmate who used a homemade weapon to stab him
He could have received as many as 60 years in prison; Illinois does not have a death penalty
A well where bodies were thought to be turned up empty, and the killer refuses to talk
He is already serving a 7-year prison term after pleading guilty to state and federal crimes
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Sgt. Michael Todd May was killed when his cruiser was struck by a drunk driver fleeing police
He pleaded guilty to three counts of capital murder, one count of attempted capital murder of a police officer
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