Crawford County authorities say an inmate escaped the county jail and left behind a rose fashioned out of toilet paper because he felt sorry for breaking out.

How thoughtful. picked by Nicky666 1 year ago

Deputies found a jail door unlocked early Saturday and were looking for the inmate. They spotted Jackson trying to come back in and found 14 packs of cigarettes they believe were stolen from a convenience store about a block away. picked by kakana 9 months ago

Brock said when he was extradicted from Georgia and brought to the jail a year ago, he was wearing an older prosthetic leg, but had a new one with him. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

Tafolla said the department will review its jail release procedures to figure out what went wrong. "We made an error," he said. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Slender, dark-haired Karen Jane Matthew was brought into the downtown King County Jail around 1 a.m. on Sept. 16 last year after being arrested for selling rock cocaine on Aurora Avenue. Over the next 30 hours, the 51-year-old inmate with a long, mostly misdemeanor record, including drugs and prostitution, lost consciousness and split open her head in a fall; told a cellmate she was "dope sic... read full post picked by bingo 1 year ago

After a former inmate uses his orange jumpsuit as a Halloween costume, a nearby jail goes into lockdown. picked by Skid 3 years ago

A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Tyred of not being able to practice his religion, an inmate is suing to obtain a hammer, cardboard sword and mead horn. I'm thinking that unless he's really Loki, his Asatru is gonna be Thor. picked by ReBoot 2 years ago

A mighty rude wind flew in the face of corrections officer Mathew Knowles on May 13. Knowles was three days on the job when inmate Kareem Haskins, 21, farted in his face at the Monroe County Correctional. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

An offbeat South Carolina prison inmate has filed a handwritten lawsuit seeking $63 quintillion from Michael Vick.
(you gotta read about this guy's reasons) picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Authorities say an inmate at Taylor Correctional Institution masterminded a scheme that resulted in false tax refunds of more than three million dollars. picked by Bornbad 9 months ago

Jerry Rosenberg was 72 and doing time for a botched 1962 stickup in Brooklyn that left two off-duty police officers dead. He served 46 years in jail. picked by suebe 6 months ago

Bet his buddies back in jail are more than happy to go to the dentist after hearing about this one. picked by muppet 2 years ago

Officials said all visits to California's state prisons are canceled until further notice after an inmate is diagnosed with a probable case of the H1N1 virus.

*remember...you hear it on Plime first* picked by Bornbad 7 months ago

LAUREL, Md. - An inmate who escaped from a hospital Wednesday, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, was cornered hours later in a cemetery by police and killed in a shootout, authorities said.

...Killed in a cemetery, how convenient. picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. ''Thomas said he pulled out his eye and subsequently ingested it," agency spokesman Jason Clark said Friday. picked by ftfd09 11 months ago

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Officials in northeastern Brazil say they confiscated the equivalent of more than $170,000 and two pistols from an imprisoned drug trafficker whose jail cell was equipped with a plasma TV set, a refrigerator and gym equipment. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

King County jail inmate Shawn Clark, 20, was recently caught hustlin' on a jail-monitored phone ordering a female prostitute to start working for him, so she could pay for his $250,000 bail. This makes judge not happy, judge MAD! picked by suebe 4 months ago

A federal prison inmate got himself listed on the ballot for Idaho's May 27 primary as a Democratic presidential candidate, the state's top election official said. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Time served and well behaved, but maybe too old to change.

Edward Magenheimer, 70, was out of Westchester County jail for less than 24 hours when he was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing a luxury car left running outside a deli. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago