Prosecutors Seek Jail Time For Berry Bonds
Former MLB star Barry Bonds could get over a year in prison.
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America, A Country Of Inmates
With 2.3 million people behind bars, America leads the world in incarceration. The U.S. prison population has more than doubled in the past 15 years.
Despite the fact that African Americans and Latino Americans are less than 30% of the country, they comprise more than 60% of its inmates.
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The New York Times reports:
Read MoreProportionally, the United States has four times as
Say What?! Jailers Serve Inmates Rotted Meat?
NEW YORK — Rikers island jailers let $130, 816 worth of odious meat rot into a mess that let one boss think it was still good enough to feed inmates.
The 65,000 pounds of spoiled meat was discovered on July 11 after smells seeped from two freezer-trailers and caught the attention of a correction captain.
The NY Daily News Reports:
Read MoreAn inventory of ruined food included cubed turkey thighs, Cajun turkey patties,
Prison Preacher Paid Inmate For Oral Sex
NEW YORK — Frank DeTucci, a 70-year-old prison chaplain at the Queensboro Correctional Facility has admitted to paying an inmate to let him perform oral sex on him.
The New York Daily News reports:
Read MoreWhen questioned, DeTucci admitted that on July 5 he paid the same inmate $120 and $150 on two separate occasions to perform oral sex on him in the chaplain’s office at the minimum-security Long Island City facility.
DeTucci has been
Inmate Who Killed Cop Will Be Released From Prison
MONTICELLO, Miss. — Cory Maye, a prisoner who was sentenced to death then life in prison for killing a police officer that he believed was a home invader, will be released from prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
The Huffington Post reports:
Read MoreShortly after midnight on December 26, 2001, Maye, then 21, was drifting off to sleep in his Prentiss duplex as the television blared in the background. Hours earlier, he had put
InfoGraphic: “Not Guilty” Program Seeks To Free Innocent Minorities From Prison
A program entitled “Not Guilty: The Tragedy of Wrongful Convictions in the U.S., and the DNA Evidence that Frees Them,” seeks to exonerate thousands of minority inmates who falsely end up on the wrong side of prison bars, due to deep flaws found in the legal system.
Created by ForensicScience.org, “Not Guilty” provides tangible data to bring a national awareness to this pressing issue and, with the advancement of science and DNA,
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Young Black, Hispanic Men Likely To Be Jobless, Imprisoned Or Dead
NORTH CAROLINA — According a new study by the College Board’s Advocacy & Policy Center, young Black and Hispanic men are heading down a socially downward spiral.
The study found that 51 percent of Hispanic males and 45 percent of African American males ages 15-24 will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead.
ABC News Channel 3 in North Carolina Reports:
Read MoreThe College Board report on educational experience observed, “…Men, especially minority men, lag
DaBrat: “Every Female In Prison Wanted Me”
Da Brat who recently got out of jail, tells TMZ she did NOT strike up a romance with another female while in jail, but insisted that the other inmates wanted to get it in with her. Brat told the website:
“Every female in prison wanted me … all of them wish they could have gotten these goodies.”
What’s the first thing Brat plans on doing when her house
Read MoreDa Brat Released From Prison
Da Brat has been released from prison yesterday after serving 3 years. Brat was convicted for assault after an altercation with a woman where she hit the woman in the face with a bottle.
Read MoreInmates Smuggled Phones Blocked With New Interceptor System
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi corrections officials said a new inmate phone block system has worked so well at the Parchman penitentiary that it will be expanded it to other state prisons.
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