Tampa officials said a drunk driver rammed into police headquarters overnight -- causing $5,000 in damage to a pillar. Read More ►
'); } // story1 if (ranNum == 1){document.write('Sheriff Low bought pink jumpsuits soon after taking office in 2005 and painted the jail pink about eight months ago. The jumpsuits are to keep inmates from coming back to jail, and the pink walls are designed to keep tempers and emotions cool in a jail that is tiny by today\'s standards. Read More ►
'); } // story2 if (ranNum == 2){document.write('A western Kentucky county jail is setting up more cameras in the jail after the discovery of a sexual relationship between a staff member and an inmate. Read More ►
'); } // sexwithinmate if (ranNum == 3){document.write('On any given week day it\'s a familiar sight--as many as twelve inmates doing landscaping around Columbus, but only one corrections officer to control them. That was the case Friday when Walker Sapree walked away from his detail.Read More ►
'); } // prisonworkdetails if (ranNum == 4){document.write('An inmate awaiting trial on child pornography charges was beaten to death in a shower at the Theo Lacey Branch Jail by a group of fellow inmates Thursday night, officials said.Read More ►
'); } // childpornbeatentodeath if (ranNum == 5){document.write('A former Marlboro man who spent nearly a decade in prison for a rape he did not commit should be paid more than $13 million for the “terrible injustice” he suffered, U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel ordered this week.Read More ►
'); } // MarlboroMan if (ranNum == 6){document.write('The day Earl Smith interviewed for the job as chaplain at San Quentin, he had to con his way into the prison. Read More ►
'); } // sanquentchaplain if (ranNum == 7){document.write('They say that criminals are dumb and this video seems to prove it. These three inmates try to escape even though everything seems to be against them. :)Read More ►
'); } // runawayvideo if (ranNum == 8){document.write('PITTSBORO, N.C. The state medical examiner says a man being pursued by Chatham County deputies in July died from cocaine poisoning and not from being hit with a taser jolt by an officer.Read More ►
'); } // cocainenottaser if (ranNum == 9){document.write('Lincoln Park police gave their side of what happened to a man who died after he was tasered.Read More ►
'); } // taserclaims if (ranNum == 10){document.write('Officers took a father into custody early Sunday morning after the man held his son hostage in the family\'s home.Read More ►
'); } // tasersaveschild if (ranNum == 11){document.write('A man is accused of killing his girlfriend\'s new kitten by slamming it against a wall because he was angry she adopted it, according to a police report.Read More ►
'); } // boyfriendkillskitten if (ranNum == 12){document.write('A Bienville Parish man who sat outside an Arcadia convenience store armed with an assault rifle, was under duress over personal problems and wanted police officers to shoot him, authorities said.Read More ►
'); } // suicidebycop if (ranNum == 13){document.write('Maybe it was the Vicodin pills prosecutors allege the young entrepreneur handed out "like they were candy" to entertain his telemarketers,or the stun gun the government contends he used to control workers who got out of line.Read More ►
'); } // spammer if (ranNum == 14){document.write('Officers in the Palm Bay Police Department said they are furious at a judge who let a man , who allegedly threatened the lives of police officers, out of jail over the weekend.Read More ►
'); } // judgereleased if (ranNum == 15){document.write('A suspect was slammed in the cells after he broke wind in a British court then burst out laughing about it.Read More ►
'); } // Stinkysubject if (ranNum == 16){document.write('A Bulgarian woman who killed her son was released from prison because of terminal cancer. She then went home and killed her husband, police said Tuesday.Read More ►
'); } // womanreleased if (ranNum == 17){document.write('Well, that\'s a DUI of a different color.Read More ►
'); } // HorseDUI if (ranNum == 18){document.write('A New Mexico woman was arrested last week after she allegedly hid a hypodermic needle filled with heroin inside a Taco Bell burrito and tried to deliver the contraband to a friend held in a city jail. (with pictures...Yummy!)Read More ►
'); } // BurritoSyringe if (ranNum == 19){document.write('A death-row inmate held in solitary confinement in Vietnam for almost a year is pregnant and is seeking a pardon to give birthRead More ►
'); } // solitarypregnant if (ranNum == 20){document.write('The nation’s top anti-drug warrior came to Colorado Springs on Wednesday to denounce a statewide ballot measure to legalize smallscale marijuana possession.U.S. drug czar John Walters called marijuana use a “disease” and said Amendment 44 would result in more drug use among adults and teens.Amendment supporter\'s response..."Whatever dude".Read More ►
'); } // DrugCzar if (ranNum == 21){document.write('More than 1,000 serious crimes have been committed by offenders released early from jail on electronic tags monitored by private companies, the Home Office reveals today.Read More ►
'); } // ElectronicMonitoring if (ranNum == 22){document.write('Without the aid of fancy lighting, makeup, and wardrobe, these little works of mug shot art--taken with Instamatic, Polaroid, and digital cameras at law enforcement agencies nationwide--are perhaps the most candid photos of celebrities (and other public figures) that you’ll see.See the Pictures ►
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