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
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
Portland police say Canterbury had a Star Wars light saber in each hand at a Toys R Us store
Defendant was shot 28 times in traffic stop after he pulled out his service Glock 9mm and started shooting
Inmate: State of North Carolina has taken the ‘death’ out of death row
Matthew S. Strong had threatened to kill himself, so police were trying to catch up to him to make sure he did not hurt himself, but court records show he would not obey orders
It’s not clear why files can’t be found for the men, at least some of whom have been eligible for parole
Records indicate inmate was resisting officers and even spitting at them
Authorities say it was a busy morning for a man released from an Oregon state prison
Rob Lyons, before a judge, said while beating his mother with a cognac bottle he ‘didn’t stop until she was dead’
Gov. Phil Bryant, who had already stopped the practice of inmate trusties living at the Governor’s Mansion, ended a decades-old program Thursday of allowing trusties to work there
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