A Dodge Correctional Institution inmate made his initial appearance on charges of attempting to strangle a staff case worker before barricading himself and the case worker in a room. Jamie L. Dennis, 30, is being charged with battery by prisoner and false imprisonment. If convicted, he could face up to 12 years in prison and [...]
Four officers injured by inmate in Stanley
In the third inmate incident in about a month, four officers at the Stanley Correctional Institution were injured Wednesday afternoon. According to a statement from Stanley Police Chief Russell Kollmansberger, police responded to the prison at about 2:35 p.m. for an assault by an inmate. Preliminary investigation by the department shows an inmate was being [...]
Inmate guilty of assaulting corrections officer in prison
The man who committed robberies with Michael Addison in the days before Addison shot and killed a Manchester police officer was convicted yesterday of assaulting a corrections officer at the state prison in Concord. Antoine Bell-Rogers, 26, was convicted by a Merrimack County jury yesterday of assault by a prisoner, which carries a possible sentence [...]
Phoenix inmate escape: 2 arrested in connection
Police have made two arrests in connection with the escape of an inmate who is still on the loose after using the identity of another prisoner to walk out of the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix Monday morning. Antonio Melara, 20, and his mother Carmella Marbury, 43, were both arrested Wednesday in suspicion of conspiracy [...]
Inmate killed in fight inside Honduran prison
Inmates at a violence-prone Honduran prison seized hostages and battled among themselves, leaving at least one inmate dead and 11 wounded, authorities said Thursday. Prison director Orlando Leyva said some women were held hostage inside the prison in San Pedro Sula, where 13 prisoners died in a riot in March. Leyva said police had not [...]
Vt. inmate found guilty of spitting on officer
An inmate serving a sentence for second-degree murder in Vermont has been found guilty of spitting on a corrections officer. Corrections officers said 26-year-old Donald Griggs already had punched a wall, injured his hand and cut his wrists on that day in September 2010. He kept threatening to spit on the officers who placed him [...]
Inmate bites victim’s ear off, flushes it down toilet in St. Clair County Jail
An inmate at the St. Clair County Jail may have taken a class from Mike Tyson. Teryun Jackson, 22, of East St. Louis, has been charged in connection with an attack on another inmate. He is accused of biting the victim’s ear and flushing it down a toilet. Teryun Jackson and a second inmate, Marlon [...]
Inmate charged with attacking jailer
An inmate at the Columbia County Detention Center was charged Tuesday in assaulting a jailer. Dennis Joe Tilley, 23, of Grovetown, was charged with willful obstruction of a law enforcement officer after he lunged at and punched a deputy jailer when told to pack his property and move to a different section of the jail, [...]
Jury rejects inmate’s claim against deputy, sheriff
A federal jury in Milwaukee has rejected a state inmate’s claim that being pushed to a wall and told not to talk in a courthouse hallway violated his civil rights, a claim Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. calls a charade. Joshua T. Howard, 34, is serving more than 100 years for sexual assault of a [...]
Neb. inmate recovering after being stabbed in neck
A Nebraska State Penitentiary inmate is recovering after being stabbed in the neck by a fellow inmate. The Lincoln Journal Star reports ( http://bit.ly/J9GFGu) that 31-year-old Adam Sommer is expected to recover from the Wednesday assault. The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating the attack on Sommer, who is imprisoned for first-degree murder. A homemade knife was [...]
Mentally ill inmates sue to get out of solitary
Troy Anderson is a mentally ill inmate in isolation at the Colorado State Penitentiary, deemed for more than a decade too dangerous to be among other offenders. His lawyers argue, however, that prolonged solitary confinement is contributing to a vicious cycle, making his psychiatric conditions worse and resulting in misbehavior that warrants further punishment. Prison [...]
Inmate charged with beating two sheriff’s deputies
A 24-year-old inmate in the county jail was arrested again after he allegedly beat up two Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies in a TV room Monday, deputies say. Rashan Mike, of Lake Park, was arrested on two counts of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon. On Monday around 5:30 p.m., [...]
