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.
Proven approaches to reduce fentanyl overdose risk and protect staff and inmates
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
The group had just finished their shift when they were hit while jogging
Carl Wayne Buntion was resentenced to death in the 1990 killing of Officer James Irby
Deputy Tony Diaz was killed out of anger and a desire to retaliate, judge said
Attorney in trial says gesture not hostile, but ‘was a little bit reckless’
George Rivas, 41, from El Paso, received lethal injection for killing Aubrey Hawkins, a 29-year-old Irving police officer
District attorney says jurist was making ‘poor rhetorical point’
An editorial commends Troopers Joseph Ross and Thomas Keegan for staying calm during an altercation in which the suspect acted so offensively the video could not be released
Officer Steven Green died two weeks ago at the hands of Lawrence Wallace Jr., who escaped his handcuffs as he was transported to jail
Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio says the boy’s body was discovered on a sidewalk
Mark Byron of Cincinnati is making the apology to avoid a 60-day prison term
Seventy-five-year-old William Barnes has been incarcerated since Philadelphia police Officer Walter Barclay died
Investigators don’t have to read Miranda rights to inmates during jailhouse interrogations about crimes unrelated to their current incarceration
Police freed her from the seatbelt and got her medical attention as soon as they realized what happened
A jury found 20-year-old Jahmell Crockam guilty Thursday of murder and weapons offenses
Executions are temporarily on hold while federal courts review the state’s lethal injection procedures, but that delay is not expected to last forever
Activists from the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty began lobbying efforts on opening day of the legislative session
23 individually wrapped pieces of crack cocaine fell from the mouth of a drug suspect
Wants people to be first evaluated at medical facility
Jurors heard opening statements in the trial of Cyril Cornelius Williams, charged in the death of Trooper Wesley Brown
The state of Utah accepted the firing squad request in Michael Archuleta’s execution
Atlanta Police Officer Steve Roach was shot three times while in full uniform
Outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned nearly 200 people who worked as trusties at the Governor’s Mansion
Eyewitnesses say a gunman was spotted on the steps of Middletown City Hall
A rape victim’s first public interview since her 2004 sexual assault in 2004 calls into question why the offender who attacked her was in public at the time
Imka Pope says jail nurses and corrections officers violated her civil rights in 1997 by dismissing her claims that she was pregnant
Besides dispelling some persistent myths about the risk of prone positioning, Dr. Christine Hall feels that one study confirms the rarity of sudden in-custody death
Luis “Baby” Ortiz fired at the skull of 29-year-old Officer Kevin Brennan, who survived the shot
A Philadelphia man arrested 44 times without a conviction faces at least 32 years in federal prison
William Barnes shot and paralyzed police Officer Walter Barclay in 1966, was charged with murder and jailed after Barclay died in August 2007