Three people have been sentenced after officials at an Australian prison found the wreckage of a drone carrying porn and $75,000 USD worth of drugs near the facility’s exercise yard, The Guardian reports. On Friday, a judge handed down sentences to 27-year-old Cheyenne Anniki Petryszyn, 33-year-old Cory Jay Sinclair Keleher and 37-year-old Bradley William Knudson …
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 …
Netflix star Joe Exotic has been moved out of isolation and into a medical unit at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, according to a post on his Instagram account. According to the post, the Tiger King — real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage — had been in isolation because of the COVID outbreak for …
Twenty-one inmates at a California correctional facility reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus after intentionally sharing a cup of water and mask. Surveillance cameras at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic apparently caught inmates gathered around a hot water dispenser, sipping the water out of a Styrofoam cup, and sniffing out of the same …
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. …
An Alabama woman who was imprisoned for fatally shooting her husband in 2015 was reportedly placed in a work-release program less than three years into her 40-year sentence. Two months ago, Cindy Kaye Henderson Reese was moved from the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women to the Birmingham Work Release Center. AL.com reported that the facility …
One of the five gang members convicted for last year’s mistaken-identity murder of a 15-year-old New York boy allegedly attacked a corrections officer on Tuesday. Sources told WPIX that Jose Muniz—who is facing life in prison for the June 20 slaying of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz—dislocated the shoulder of a Manhattan Detention Center corrections officer. The officer …
Authorities in Oklahoma confirmed that an inmate convicted for the 1997 murder of an 8-year-old girl died last month as a result of strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head. The Office of the State Medical Examiner informed the Associated Press of Anthony Palma’s cause of death on January 11 at the Oklahoma State …
An inmate housed in a Florida prison reportedly strangled his cellmate, mutilated his body, and came to the prison’s cafeteria wearing the man’s ear as a necklace before guards realized something was wrong. Sources revealed to the Miami Herald that the unnamed inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution killed Larry Mark, 58, (pictured) Thursday morning in the annex, …
Following his conviction last week in a retrial on charges that he drugged and molested a woman in 2004, disgraced comedian Bill Cosby is reportedly preparing himself for what could amount to a life sentence in prison. Currently free on $1 million bail pending a sentencing hearing, the New York Post‘s Page Six reported that …
A Texas woman in prison for the 2002 slaying of her husband will be released from a Gatesville prison after spending 15 years behind bars. The Houston Chronicle reported that Clara Harris, now 60, learned in November that she would be paroled on May 11. Convicted of manslaughter, Harris served 15 of a 20-year sentence for …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Prisoners armed with homemade knives rioted for more than seven hours inside a maximum-security facility, leaving seven inmates dead, and bodies were “literally stacked on top of each other,” an inmate told The Associated Press on Monday. At least 17 prisoners were seriously injured as inmates fought uninterrupted before authorities regained …
