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Workers are altering part of the Vigo County jail to fix a design flaw that allowed inmates to crawl through the ceiling to visit other cells. Eight pods in the 7-year-old addition to the original jail are getting sturdier ceiling panels to prevent excursions by inmates under a settlement with the original architect.
The fragile psyche of Delonte West could use a break, but if the frustrations with life that drove the Cavaliers guard to ride around the Metro D.C. area armed like a mercenary weighed on him, how must West feel with the weight of the legal system on his tattooed shoulders?
The California con man who failed in his bid to take over an empty Montana jail testified Friday that he is out of money, does not have the corporate backing he once claimed and even struggles to pay rent on his apartment.
An arrest warrant was issued Thursday in California for a convicted felon who recently tried to take over a Montana jail, as jilted investors and a former employee scramble for money they've lost to the long time con artist.
Guards at a northern Indiana jail face disciplinary action and will receive additional training after a man was accidentally trapped inside a cell for 12 hours. Elkhart County Sheriff Mike Books said officers and supervisors on the jail's first and second shifts "failed to account" for 40-year-old Scott Roberts and that their actions were unacceptable.
A convicted con artist from California who roiled a southeastern Montana community with his unlikely bid to take over its empty jail said he intends to return to the state and pursue a military training center.
Apparently one Sheboygan County Jail inmate isn't a fan of "The Office." Prosecutors said an argument over the NBC sitcom led to a scuffle that resulted in a fresh felony charge against one inmate. The criminal complaint filed this week says two inmates were watching the show last week when 18-year-old Shacoya S. Crawley told them she wanted to watch something else.
A convicted con artist from California who roiled a southeastern Montana community with his unlikely bid to take over its empty jail said he intends to return to the state and pursue a military training center.
When Haifa Zangana was captured by Iraq's secret police in 1971, she feared she might never see her friends or family again.
A California sewer agency suspected that inmates were the culprits for towels, pens and food that kept jamming their pipes.
Three teenage inmates in a southern Indiana jail attacked three guards and briefly held them hostage early Tuesday during an escape attempt that left one guard hospitalized with a stab wound to the head, authorities said.
A former Secret Service agent named as the would-be operator of a Montana jail and law enforcement training center served 14 months in prison for stealing money from the government.
Violent guards, understaffing and unsanitary conditions violate the constitutional rights of inmates at a New Orleans jail heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina, a Justice Department report concludes.
Actor Keanu Reeves had no problem getting inside Buffalo-area jails. The feds haven't been so lucky.
The vice president of Hardin's economic development agency is trying to assure residents that its contract with a California company to operate and expand a private jail is legitimate.
A former inmate in Florida was injured while trying to sneak back into jail. Sylvester Jiles suffered severe cuts from barbed wire while trying to climb a 12-foot fence at the Brevard County Detention Center Monday night. The 24-year-old former inmate was released last week from the jail after accepting a plea deal on a manslaughter charge.
Police say a 14-year-old girl spent 10 days in the Dallas County Jail after lying about her age.
Bracing for an influx of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an ambitious effort to locate veterans who've had minor brushes with the law and offer them treatment to try to prevent repeat crimes.
Want to spend a night in jail? And how about paying for the privilege? The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department in eastern Missouri has come up with a novel way to pay for mattresses at a new jail addition.
A county jail near Boston has been evacuated after officials say a group of inmates broke the sprinkler system and flooded the building.
Western Michigan University student William K. Bradley was sentenced for larceny in a building. He stole a computer. From the Kalamazoo County jail. Where he already was serving a sentence in a different case.
There hasn't been a desperado behind bars in more than 70 years at the old Hays County Jail in Central Texas, and now the building is crumbling and needs some help.
A man caught breaking into the Miller County Jail last summer will soon leave his cell there for one in an Arkansas prison. Bobby Finley, 20, was accused of planning to sell drugs and tobacco inside the jail. Finley pleaded guilty Thursday to five felony counts and was sentenced to a total of 19 years in prison. But the sentences are to run consecutively and top out at five years.
A 20-year-old man was locked up once again after being charged with stealing his prisoner T-shirt from a previous stint at the Fresno County Jail. The man was arrested last week on suspicion of child abuse and possession of marijuana. After he was released from jail last Thursday, police said he nearly caused a collision while riding his bike.
Former Montague County Sheriff Bill Keating, who had faced up to a decade in federal prison for a sexual assault and was accused of letting inmates have the run of his small-town jail, died of an apparent heart attack. He was 62.
Korean blogger jailed for criticism of potential KDB-Lehman deal"The post that would bring Minerva worldwide fame appeared on August 25, 2008, under the florid title "Overture to the 2008 Financial Wars: Apocalypse Now in Korea." It attacked a plan, floated three days before by the Korea Development Bank, to purchase a large chunk of Lehm …
Lets make waitressing a real job, with wages and benefits. Waitresses work very hard. It is a regular Job, but not often thought of that way.... The people who hire waitresses should pay them a decent wage....period. It is harder work than so many other jobs...and it is morally criminal to expect the patrons to pay employees wages.
Magistrate allows inmate to leave jail for ThanksgivingHe has a criminal history stretching decades.
Unintended Consequences of the New York City Terrorist TrialNew York City experienced Muslim Day in 2008. Then there was the pro-Hamas demonstration in Florida.
Authorities investigate inmate death at jailDARTMOUTH, Mass. -- The Bristol District Attorney's Office is investigating the death of an inmate who died after collapsing at the county jail.
DC Joins Effort To Identify Illegal Immigrants WASHINGTON (AP) ― D.C. police will join other local police departments in a federal program that checks the immigration status of every person booked into a local jail.
Deputies facing drug trafficking, other chargesDeputies Wayne Bartley and Bill Mattingly were arrested Thursday on charges of selling marijuana, official misconduct, theft, tampering with evidence and criminal mischief, according to a news release from the state police West Drug Enforcement unit in Bowling Green.
Nancy Pelosi On Jail Time For No Health Care: "The Legislation Is Very Fair In This Respect"KOMO-TV: Do you think it's fair to send people to jail who don't buy health insurance? Pelosi: .. "the legislation is very fair in this respect." Watch the video here:
Judge orders Va. man to live in his neglected homeRICHMOND, Va. -- A Richmond man will have to live more than a month in one of his neglected rental houses as punishment for failing to maintain his properties.
My So-Called Life Without ParoleFlorida has 111 of the teens incarcerated for non-homicide related paroles. What a shame! Does this have anything to do with the literacy rate or temperature?
Suspected gunman denied bond A man charged with killing a worker and wounding five others in the Orlando engineering firm where he once worked has been denied bond.
Update: Inmates talk about saving deputy's life Attempted murder, home invasion, armed robbery, assault with a knife. Their charges are what society sees when they look at these men, three of whom have spent much of their lives in and out of jail.
Hamburger assault lands man in jail.Later that evening, Morgan was arrested on suspicion of robbery, held in a police cell overnight and has since been charged with causing criminal damage to the two burgers.
Man arrested in sexual assault of teen - MLive.comA 20-year-old man has been charged in the sexual assault of a Detroit teenager pulled into an abandoned garage while on her way to school
On YouTube, sex offender Edward Muscare, known as Edarem, lip syncs and sings; now, he's in jail On the YouTube video-sharing Web site, Edward Muscare is known by his user name "Edarem," and his recordings show an older man lip syncing and singing songs such as Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman." Many of them have drawn hundreds of thousands of page views.
Snake collector confesses to double murderA Hernando County man is in custody after the Sheriff of Pasco County says he confessed to shooting and killing his wife and a man that she was in a relationship with.
Will Nasty F-Bomb Land Man in Jail? It may not be language that you'd want to your mother to hear you say, but is an angry burst of potty-mouth worth 30 days in jail? (Caution: potentially offensive and altogether naughty material ahead.)
Jailed for being pregnant?Amber Lovill was almost six months pregnant and on probation when a mandatory drug test found high levels of methamphetamine in her system.
Throw a pillow, go to jail!A thrown pillow landed an Edgewater resident in jail on a charge of battery on a law enforcement officer, police said.
Another jail incident with inmate in wheelchair; nurse fired The latest incident involving a wheelchair-bound person at a Tampa Bay area jail occurred August 8th at the Faulkenburg Road Jail, which is the jail's medical facility.
FBI Agent Robert Hamer/ infiltrated Man/Boy Group/ Sex with Adult Males and Children/Full storyFBI agent Robert Hamer…The final sting Follow up of former infiltrator of the FBI who helped jail the man/boy sexual pedophiles.. Article in part and
Dolton cop caught on camera in student's beating is in jail on rape charge -- chicagotribune.comA Dolton cop caught on camera allegedly breaking a 15-year-old special needs student's nose for failing to tuck in his shirt has a troubling history that includes killing a man in a case of disputed self-defense and is now in an Indiana jail on an unrelated rape charge.
When exotic dancers get into a cat fight, fur flies. And beer bottles are weaponsWe love a good cat fight. Especially when it involves two exotic dancers.
Father, son get a second chance in the most unlikely place - St. Petersburg TimesA sore back brought Michael Thornton to the jailhouse infirmary, but far worse problems plagued him. • He was in trouble — again. Even more devastating, his youngest son had gotten into trouble, too. Serious trouble.
Two claim jail deputies abused them Hillsborough Sheriff's officials say there is nothing to substantiate claims from two former inmates they were abused by deputies in the county jail.
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