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• Kentucky police launch manhunt for escaped inmate
  
  11 (UPI) -- The Kentucky State Police said they're searching for a prison inmate who escaped custody ... He was an inmate at Christian County Detention Center.... [ more ]
  UPI.com, Saturday, January 11, 2020
  
  
• Officials Say Inmate Stabbed Lincoln Prison Staffer
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An inmate at the Lincoln Correctional Center stabbed a prison staffer with a sharpened toothbrush, causing serious injuries, Nebraska... [ more ]
  U.S. News, Friday, January 10, 2020
  
  
• Ex-Officer Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Jail Inmate
  
  He admitted to choking and shoving the inmate without provocation. The 40-year-old victim was being booked for violating a court order and had been insulting... [ more ]
  U.S. News, Friday, January 10, 2020
  
  
• Inmates Attack Guard at Massachusetts Max Security Prison
  
  SHIRLEY, Mass. (AP) — Three guards were injured and a maximum security Massachusetts prison was placed in lockdown Friday after a group of inmates... [ more ]
  U.S. News, Friday, January 10, 2020
  
  
• 2 Inmates Plead Guilty in Vermont Prison Disturbance
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Two Vermont prison inmates have pleaded guilty to assault charges in connection with what officials called a unit takeover.... [ more ]
  US News, Wednesday, January 8, 2020
  
  
• One Mississippi prison escapee still at large, one in custody after days of riots, bloodshed
  
  JACKSON, Miss. – One of two inmates who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman during a statewide lockdown is in custody, authorities say.... [ more ]
  USA Today, Sunday, January 5, 2020
  
  
• Morgan County inmate recaptured; authorities searching for second
  
  HARTSELLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Morgan County Sheriff’s Deputies captured a man who walked off work release on December 30th. A second inmate remains in the run.... [ more ]
  Waff 48, Saturday, January 4, 2020
  
  
• An inmate in South Carolina was just captured 40 years after he escaped from a work crew
  
  (CNN)A prison inmate who escaped from a South Carolina work crew in 1979 was captured in Delaware on New Year's Day, according to the department.... [ more ]
  https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/02/us/inmate-captured-south-carolina-delaware-trnd/index.html, Friday, January 3, 2020
  
  
• Suspected police impersonator arrested in Maryland
  
  WHITE OAK, Md. — A suspected police impersonator has been arrested and charged with crimes including impersonating a police officer, extortion and false imprisonment.... [ more ]
  WUSA9, Tuesday, December 31, 2019
  
  
• Orange County man charged with federal hate crimes
  
  MONSEY — A Greenwood Lake man accused in Ramapo of multiple attempted murder charges for seriously injuring five Orthodox Jews during a machete attack at a Saturday night Hanukkah party now faces federal hate crimes counts including attempted murder and violating the victims’ religious rights.... [ more ]
  Record Online, Monday, December 30, 2019
  
  
• Epstein jail guards had been offered plea deal, AP sources say
  
  Federal prosecutors offered a plea deal to two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his death, but the officers have declined the offer, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.... [ more ]
  cnbc.com, Friday, November 15, 2019
  
  
• South Carolina teen gets life in prison for deadly elementary school shooting
  
  GREENVILLE, S.C. – On a day another deadly shooting took place at a school across the country, Jesse Osborne, the teenager responsible for a shooting at a South Carolina elementary school in 2016, was sentenced to life in prison.... [ more ]
  usatoday.com, Thursday, November 14, 2019
  
  
• Killer claims his life sentence is served because he briefly died
  
  His lawyer argued that Schreiber had been sentenced to life without parole "but not to life plus one day". The novel legal argument came to light this week when the Court of Appeals of Iowa denied an appeal for inmate Benjamin Schreiber, who has been in prison since he was convicted of murder in 1997.... [ more ]
  sbdirtysouthsoccer.com, Saturday, November 9, 2019
  
  
• Iowa Prisoner Serving Life Sentence Died And Was Revived, Says He�s Served His Time And Should Be Free
  
  An Iowa prisoner serving a life sentence for murder died in a hospital before being revived. Now he claims that his death ended his life sentence, and he should be freed.... [ more ]
  inquisitr.com, Friday, November 8, 2019
  
  
• Death row inmate Lee Hall chooses the electric chair for his Dec. 5 execution
  
  The next death row inmate set to be executed in Tennessee notified prison officials he wants to die by electric chair, making him the fourth inmate to choose that method over lethal injection since August 2018.... [ more ]
  tennessean.com, Thursday, November 7, 2019
  
  
• Jane Fonda at 81, Proudly Protesting and Going to Jail
  
  Being arrested at her age has its hazards, like keeping balanced with bound hands. But the star says she feels the need to do more about climate change.... [ more ]
  nytimes.com, Sunday, November 3, 2019
  
  
• Florida judge gives 21-year-old juror 10 days in jail for oversleeping, missing court
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After the familiar nightmare about oversleeping and missing a final exam or a big job interview, waking up usually brings relief. But for 21-year-old Deandre Somerville the nightmare came after he actually overslept for jury service in a Florida courtroom. A judge later punished him with a 10 day jail sentence.... [ more ]
  USA Today, Saturday, October 5, 2019
  
  
• Key Witness In Trial Of Ex-Dallas Cop Who Killed Botham Jean Shot To Death
  
  The neighbor of Botham Jean, the 26-year-old man who was killed by a Dallas police officer in his own apartment, was shot to death, according to local reports.... [ more ]
  Huffpost, Saturday, October 5, 2019
  
  
• Catholic school teen gets 5 days in juvenile jail for racist videos, threats
  
  COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A 16-year-old has been sentenced to five days in a juvenile jail and 18 months of probation for threatening to shoot up his Catholic school in South Carolina in a group chat where he also sent racist videos.... [ more ]
  cruxnow.com, Friday, October 4, 2019
  
  
• The Jill Behrman murder case and John Myers conviction, explained
  
  Indiana University student Jill Behrman was on a bike ride when she disappeared in May 2000. Authorities found the 19-year-old freshman's bicycle a few days later, but it would be three years before police found her bones.... [ more ]
  IndyStar, Wednesday, October 2, 2019
  
  
• Marion County will no longer prosecute simple marijuana possession, officials say
  
  Only a week into his temporary term as top prosecutor in Marion County, Ryan Mears is moving his office in a direction that could, for better or worse, have a significant impact on the community.... [ more ]
  IndyStar, Tuesday, October 1, 2019
  
  
• Alabama sheriffs release sick, dying inmates from jail to avoid paying their hospital bills
  
  Michael Tidwell’s blood sugar reading was at least 15 times his normal level when sheriff’s deputies took him to the hospital. But before they loaded the inmate into the back of a car, deputies propped up his slumping body and handed him a pen so he could sign a release from the Washington County Jail.... [ more ]
  al.com, Monday, September 30, 2019
  
  
• Texas Homeowner Shoots Burglar, Goes Back To Bed Before Calling Cops
  
  Dallas, TX – A Texas homeowner allegedly shot a suspected burglar, then went back to bed for approximately two hours before calling the police.... [ more ]
  Blue Lives Matter, Monday, September 30, 2019
  
  
• Former Inmate Alice Marie Johnson Models for Kim Kardashian West's Skims 'Solutionwear' Line
  
  A Colorado woman was left alone in a cell while giving birth and jail deputies and nurses failed to provide adequate care, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S District Court in Colorado. ... [ more ]
  USA TODAY, Thursday, August 29, 2019
  
  
• California parents charged with hate crime for kidnapping boy found hiding in teen daughter's closet, police say
  
  The parents of a 15-year-old California girl are being charged with a hate crime after they allegedly kidnapped and abused their daughter's boyfriend after they found him hiding in the home, according to police. ... [ more ]
  abcnews.go.com, Sunday, August 25, 2019
  
  
• Ohio Teen Charged in Threats, Had 10,000 Rounds of Ammo
  
  An 18-year-old Ohio man has been arrested on state and federal charges after investigators said he made threats against federal law enforcement and Planned Parenthood, USA Today reports.... [ more ]
  thecrimereport.org, Wednesday, August 14, 2019
  
  
• Warden at New York Jail Where Financier Epstein Died Removed
  
  WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered the removal of the warden at the federal jail where financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, the Justice Department said on Tuesday, after condemning "serious irregularities" at the facility.... [ more ]
  voanews.com, Tuesday, August 13, 2019
  
  
• A Minnesota father told police he dropped his 5-month-old boy on his head for being 'fussy.' The baby died
  
  A Minnesota father is facing second-degree murder charges after police say he deliberately dropped his 5-month-old boy on his head, killing him.... [ more ]
  USA Today, Sunday, August 11, 2019
  
  
• At least 20 dead. Suspected gunman could face death penalty. What we know about the El Paso shooting
  
  A capital murder charge was officially filed against the man accused of killing 20 people and injuring 26 others in a mass shooting at a busy Walmart in El Paso, Texas.... [ more ]
  USA TODAY, Sunday, August 4, 2019
  
  
• Missing Alabama Woman Found Dead In A Well 4 Years After Her Mother's Murder
  
  A missing young Alabama woman was discovered dead at the bottom of a well on Monday — securing her the same devastating fate as her mother who was found murdered four years earlier.... [ more ]
  Oxygen - Crime Time, Tuesday, July 30, 2019