Tag: Corrections

BOSTON -- A corrections officer who sued Sheriff James DiPaola for $1 million after he claimed he was subjected to racial slurs following the Sept. 11 attacks has reached a ...

ATLANTA, Ga. -- New Clayton County Sheriff Kem Kimbrough fired 14 deputies on his first day in office --- a move similar to the one that cost the former sheriff ...

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-- Talk about a costly parking ticket.Last year, a small-town Cambria County mayor stepped in to patrol his borough for a police officer when she called off sick. During ...

NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah -- A police officer injured after crashing his car on wet roads during a police pursuit remains hospitalized in critical condition. "He's still critical and they're ...

HOUSTON -- A systemwide shakedown of the huge Texas prison system is netting authorities more contraband than just illegal cell phones.Officers have turned up 61 weapons, 52 instances of tobacco ...

HOUSTON -- The nation's second-largest prison system is enforcing a lockdown after authorities learned a condemned killer had made threatening calls to a Texas state senator from a cell phone ...

CLOVIS, N.M. -- An agent investigating last month's escape of eight jail inmates says prisoners probably stole a key left in a door by a corrections officer doing plumbing work ...

SEQUIM, Wash. -- The man who authorities say shot and killed a U.S. Forest Service officer and a Sequim-area man on Saturday had been wanted by the state for missing ...

ALBUQUERQUE -- A letter written by an Aryan Brotherhood leader in capital letters, scrunched-up lines and a nearly impenetrable code of prison slang was the focus of testimony Monday in ...

ALGER, Wash. -- A terrifying shooting spree that stretched from a small northwest Washington town onto the state's busiest highway left six people dead and at least two more wounded ...