An inmate at a Connecticut prison reportedly hanged himself this with a mask intended to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Daniel Ocasio, 32, was reportedly found unresponsive in a cell on Wednesday at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center. The state Department of Correction said he was discovered sitting on a bunk with a prison-issued …
An inmate at the work camp at the Vermont Northeast Correctional Complex in St. Johnsbury climbed a fence on Friday and escaped the prison where he was serving time for burglary and resisting arrest. Vermont State Police said that Shannon Edwards, 35, was likely headed toward his hometown of Waterbury, about 50 miles west, the …
Two inmates at the Rikers Island prison in New York City reportedly escaped on Thursday, and one inmate is still on the loose. ABC News reports that two inmates had somehow escaped the correctional facility and were seen jumping into the water, presumably the East River. One escaped inmate was immediately caught, and a second …
Citing a source at the Ramsey County Jail, TMZ reports that Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd during an arrest earlier this week, is being monitored around the clock with in-person checks on his jail cell every 15 minutes. TMZ said its source didn’t call the protocol in …
An Arkansas woman who was sentenced to 140 years behind bars for murdering her physically abusive husband in 1985 will be freed from prison. The Appeal reported that Willie May Harris, 72, was granted parole after serving 34 years in prison. Harris has maintained her innocence, claiming she accidentally shot her husband during an argument …
Georgia officials said a former school and church volunteer who was serving a life sentence for molesting nine boys was killed in a prison altercation earlier this month. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Cesar Pastrana, 33, died March 13 from injuries he sustained in a fight with another inmate at Hancock State Prison in Sparta. …
A California inmate believed to have beaten two other inmates to death with a cane wrote a San Jose newspaper to confess to the killings, saying he warned prison officials that he would attack an inmate soon if he wasn’t transferred to another facility. Jonathan Watson, 41, has not been charged in the deaths of …
Recently-released surveillance footage from an Oklahoma jail appears to show an inmate beg for help for days before he died of pneumonia and sepsis. CBS News reported that the footage shows Terral Ellis Jr., 26, at the Ottawa County Jail in October 2015. Twelve days before his death, Ellis had turned himself in on an …
A forensic pathologist said that burst capillaries located in Jeffrey Epstein’s eyes strongly suggest the jailed pedophile was manually strangled and did not kill himself. In a clip provided to the Daily Mail, former New York City Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Baden revealed during a “Dr. Oz” interview that there were several “red flags” on …
Michelle Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend’s 2014 suicide, will be released from a Massachusetts prison next week for good behavior. WXFT reported that Carter, 22, will be released on January 23 — months ahead of her expected release date in May. Carter began her two-and-a-half-year sentence in February. She …
Federal prosecutors in New York revealed on Thursday that surveillance footage taken from outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell during his first apparent suicide attempt is gone due to a mistake in recordkeeping. According to NBC News, prosecutors said the FBI discovered the error last week while reviewing a copy of the video given to …
A man in Colorado who was arrested on December 13 for allegedly fatally poisoning a 9-year-old girl with chloroform died hours after being found unresponsive in his cell on Monday. On Thursday, the Mesa County Coroner’s Office identified the Mesa County Jail inmate who died this week as Jeffrey Beagley, 34. Beagley was jailed in …
