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unusual facts about Department of Corrections


Criminal record

Registered sex offenders have information about their crimes or misdemeanors readily available, and Department of Correctional Services in many states disseminate criminal records to the public, through media such as the Internet.



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Andrew John Yellowbear Jr.

In 2008, Yellowbear filed a lawsuit against the Wyoming Department of Corrections claiming the state violated his constitutional rights by depriving him of ten bald eagle feathers for use in religious ceremonies.

Effects of Hurricane Charley in South Carolina

Hampton County requested 2,000 sandbags, that were provided by the Department of Corrections.

Morris Kirksey

He worked as a staff psychiatrist for the state Department of Corrections, assigned to San Quentin and Folsom prisons.

Richard L. Dugger

Dugger was warden of Florida State Prison from 1982 to 1987, when he was appointed Secretary of the Department of Corrections by then Florida Governor Bob Martinez.

Robert Lee Yates

He graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 1970, and in 1975, he was hired by the Washington State Department of Corrections to work as a prison guard at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.

Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr.

In 2004 Bowling sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections along with fellow inmate Ralph Baze on the grounds that execution by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Washington State Department of Corrections

In May 1981, the Washington State Legislature transferred the administration of adult correctional institutions from the Washington Department of Social and Health Services, Division of Adult Corrections (DSHS) to the newly created Washington State Department of Corrections.