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.
Circuit court ruled an officer could be held liable for failing to stop jail staff from assaulting detainee, citing duty to intervene
From SWAT to narcotics, becoming an expert is a lot of hard work. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would be an expert
With more being asked of these facilities, they need additional solutions
Suspect shot himself in head in back of cruiser, says report; family disputes case with help of Rev. Jesse Jackson
As a young gang member, was arrested in the point-blank execution of two undercover officers in an illegal gun sting gone awry
Officer says a drunk University of Colorado student for turned his life upside down
A Norwegian court sentenced Anders Behring Breivik to prison, denying the insanity ruling prosecutors had wanted
When officers approached the inmate, he fired multiple shots, but missed
Man suspected in officer’s murder on probation, failed drug test
In the phone call, man who an autopsy report says killed himself told his girlfriend he had a gun with him
An Army psychiatrist faces the death penalty if convicted in the attack on Fort Hood that killed 13
A man acquitted at trial claimed Deputy Josie Fox was killed in 2010 when her brother picked up an AK-47, placed it against her chest and fired twice
A Calif. correctional officer posed as a police officer when he pulled over a driver
A man whose hands were cuffed behind him in the back seat of a patrol car shot himself in the right temple, according to an autopsy
In wiretapped conversations, defendant indicated he shot Clairton officer James Kuzak, who is now paralyzed