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
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
Authorities said the handgun was discovered in the jail cell toilet
Timothy Darrell Johnson Jr. faces charges of attempted murder of a police officer
Mississippi’s long-standing ‘trusty’ program is in the spotlight
Arrests made at the Supreme Court for protesting the resumption of the use of the death penalty
The former governor said he’s not concerned that the freed trusties might harm anyone
Accident or not, consequences must be paid, judge says
Cook County has been at the center of the debate over the treatment of illegal immigrants for several months
Suspect remained on the run thanks to an assailant who tackled police in a videotaped struggle that went viral
Outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour’s pardons were called ‘a slap in the face to everyone in law enforcement’
The Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office released a complete list of pardons and other executive actions Tuesday, Republican Haley Barbour’s last day
This is the second time in two terms that the Supreme Court has dealt with violations in the New Orleans prosecutor’s office of so-called Brady rights
The state plans to use the drug to execute Michael Ryan for a 1985 slaying
Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis was shot while working security at convenience store
Hennepin County District Judge Lloyd Zimmerman went public with his concern less than a month after a prosecutor and another man were shot at a northern Minnesota courthouse with minimal security
A parole task force showed up to search a 45-year-old man’s residence
Suspect tried to elude police because he did not believe he had a valid driver’s license, he said
