Tag: jail

Corrections Review Finds Decision to Transfer Bernardo to Medium Security Prison Was ‘Sound’

A review of the controversial decision to transfer serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison has found the Correctional Service of Canada’s decision was “sound,” but noted that the agency could have given victims’ families advance warning of his transfer. “The Review Committee concluded that the decisions to reclassify this inmate to…


Inmate Suspected of Homicide Escapes From a Pennsylvania Jail Using Bed Sheets

WARREN, Pa.—Authorities were searching Saturday for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who escaped from a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets, officials said. Michael Burham was last seen wearing a blue denim coat from the jail, white and orange pants, and orange shoes, Warren police said Friday. Mr. Burham was being…


Moscow Court Rules US Journalist Evan Gershkovich Must Stay in Jail Until Late August

MOSCOW—A Moscow court on Thursday ruled that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must remain in jail on espionage charges until at least late August, rejecting the American journalist’s appeal to be released. The 31-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested in late March while on a reporting trip. A Moscow court ruled last month to keep…


Millionaire’s Elaborate Jail Escape Plan Foiled, Florida Sheriff Says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Authorities say they’ve foiled an elderly businessman’s plan to escape a Florida jail and return to France where he had previously fled in an attempt to avoid child pornography charges. A tip from outside the jail sparked a two-month investigation of John Manchec, 78, and people he had enlisted in his escape plan,…


2nd Mississippi Jail Escapee Found; Arrested in Texas

JACKSON, Miss.—A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail last weekend and fled to Texas after allegedly stealing a public works vehicle has been arrested in Houston, authorities announced Thursday. Jerry Raynes was apprehended days after he and three other inmates escaped Saturday night from the Raymond Detention Center near Jackson, Mississippi’s capital, Hinds County…


Mississippi Jail Escapee Believed Dead After Armed Standoff

CONWAY, Miss.—A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail and is a suspect in a Monday night killing is believed to have died after barricading himself in a home and setting it on fire during an armed standoff with deputies, a police official said Wednesday. Plumes of smoke emanated from the charred remains of the…


Mississippi Jail Escapee a Suspect in Killing, Carjacking

JACKSON, Miss.—A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail over the weekend is suspected of killing a man and stealing his pickup truck in Jackson, authorities said Tuesday. Anthony Watts, 61, was shot and killed Monday night around 7 p.m. on Interstate 55 after he pulled over to help a man who had wrecked a…


20 Hurt When Inmate Sets Fire at NYC’s Rikers Island Jail

NEW YORK—A fire set by an inmate at New York City’s troubled Rikers Island injured 20 people on a day that lawmakers visited the jail complex, authorities said. Fifteen staff members and five inmates were injured in the fire that started at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the city Correction Department said. The New York City…


Rep. Greene and Bipartisan Lawmakers Visit DC Jail That Holds January 6 Defendants

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and other bipartisan lawmakers visit the jail where the Jan. 6 defendants are held in Washington at 4:00 p.m. ET on March 24. …


2 Escape Jail and Go to IHOP, Where Patrons Report Them

NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Two inmates in a Virginia jail used primitively made tools to create a hole in the wall of their cell and escape, only to be found hours later at an IHOP restaurant nearby, a sheriff said. Authorities discovered the two men, ages 37 and 43, missing from their cell in the Newport News…