prison

An inmate escaped from St. Louis city jail on Friday after fighting off no less than 12 correctional officers with a pair of nunchucks that he had pieced together from a sheet and parts of a chair. After bashing his way through the security personnel, 31-year-old Lorenzo Pollard is...

To the untrained eye they look like harmless pictures, colored by a child to bring some joy to her daddy serving time in prison. And what joy they would bring – they’re laced with drugs. The yellow stains are Suboxone, a drug used to treat opiate that also do...

I’m not one to judge people based on their religious beliefs, no matter how outlandish they seem to me.  But this time, claiming your religion to be “Festivus” in order to get your fill of kosher meals, well I’m calling shenanigans on this one. When Malcolm Alarmo King was...

Of all the things that you might worry about your cellmate doing to you in prison, having him eat your glasses is probably not at the top of the list. It isn’t even something that you would think could happen, but it did – in a North Dakota prison...

While it might be argued that a person is “lucky” to be sent to prison in a country where some 68 crimes (including gold and silver smuggling) are punishable by death, beating the firing squad in China is no guarantee of safety. The prisons, it would seem, are just...

The Limestone Correctional Facility in Alabama managed to lose a prisoner who was participating in a dog training exercise. David Hopkins, was playing the part of a fugitive when he vanished in the woods and failed to return for head count. A warning was posted to “be on the...

Her Majesty’s Prison The Verne in southwestern England is experiencing an invasion of unwelcome visitors. Snakes, not just any snake, they are Britains only poisonous snake, the adder. According to local newspaper reports, the snakes are scaling the walls to soak up some of the recent sun. The 600 inmates have been warned to...

British prisoners who have been clean for years are being reintroduced to narcotics before being set loose in a bid to increase their tolerance levels before they hit the streets. The controversial practice of preparing reformed heroin abusers for release with small doses of methadone aims to save lives....

An inmate at Monroe County Jail is alleged to have shown extreme resourcefulness in choosing a weapon for the beating of a fellow prisoner. RocNow reports that 33-year-old David B. Hanna, who is in jail on felony drug and parole violation charges, was charged with first-degree assault over the...