(WOIO) – The State Prison System has released a 26-page report on prison suicides, including the suicide of convicted kidnapper Ariel Castro. [Read the entire…
After serving two years of a four year sentence, Conrad Murray was released from jail early Monday. Murray, 60, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in November 2011 for his role in the death of Michael Jackson. Jackson was found dead in 2009 at his rented mansion in Holmby Hills. The coroner’s office later determined […]
Popular youth evangelist Matt Pitt, 30, who founded one of America’s largest Christian youth ministries known as The Basement will spend the next 10 months in jail after an Alabama judge revoked his probation for a 2012 crime on Tuesday. The evangelist made headlines in August after he jumped off a 45-foot cliff in an […]
Longtime Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed reported to jail on Wednesday to begin serving his 10-day drunk driving sentence Around 8 a.m., Councilman Reed turned himself in to the Solon City Jail based on orders issued by the Cleveland Municipal Court. Solon police tell 19 Action News that it is not unusual for the City of Solon to house prisoners in unique […]
Bishop Secular tells us Pastor got jammed up in customs after borrowing his cousin, Lil’ Stank’s luggage. Listen to the hilarious audio below as Bishop tells…
“There are more black men in jail than in college” is a line that has transfigured our understanding of persistent problems among black men in the United States. Many activists and scholars recite it to invoke urgency to fight unjust social structures, while culture critics say it to condemn the social failings of black […]
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the weekend in prison as a penalty for 14 parole violations, a state corrections spokesman said Friday. When given the opportunity to waive the formal parole violation process and instead serve three days at a Detroit lockup as punishment, Kilpatrick agreed, said Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman […]
Former Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo has arrived at a federal prison in Pennsylvania, where he will begin serving a 22-year sentence on corruption and racketeering charges. While Russo has made two passes around the entrance, he has not yet entered the prison. Russo has remained free on bond for more than two years after […]
Former WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw is in custody after being accused of shooting into a woman’s car after using a bat to break its windows. Atlanta police said Thursday that the incident happened Tuesday after the Olympic gold medalist followed 29-year-old Jennifer Lacy to her car. Lacy plays for the Tulsa Shock. No one was […]
George Zimmerman was released around midnight Sunday from a county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. The neighborhood watch volunteer was wearing a brown jacket and blue jeans and carrying a paper bag. He met a man in a white vehicle and drove away. […]
Thousands of California state prisoners, angry about what they call harsh treatment, have been on a hunger strike that enters its ninth day Tuesday. There could be as many as 12,000 inmates skipping meals in at least eight California prisons, a prison advocacy group said. Many inmates are angry about a practice of keeping them […]
It’s an average day and you’re walking with your children across a busy intersection that will soon be hidden in darkness. You and your three children are dropped off by the bus and trying to make it to your home across a busy intersection before it gets dark and oncoming traffic won’t be able to […]
