After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear her appeal, disgraced former Attorney General Kathleen Kane has exhausted her legal options and must begin serving her jail sentence. Kane, 52, the first woman and first Democrat to be elected to the state’s top law enforcement job, was convicted two years ago on perjury […]
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced that the four prison guards who were allegedly tied to Darren Rainey’s death won’t face any charges.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century. Almost all the prisoners were serving time for nonviolent crimes related to cocaine, methamphetamine or […]
Family members are demanding answers as to what happened to their daughter.
Less than a month after pleading guilty to assaulting his wife, gospel songwriter James Fortune, who accepted a plea deal that included charges of third-degree felony assault, has turned himself in. The Grammy-nominated artist reported to a Fort Bend County jail just after 6 pm Monday to begin his brief sentence, reports ABC 13. In early […]
Joyce Curnell, who was battling sickle-cell anemia, alcoholism and hypertension, was found dead in her cell just before 5 p.m. ET on July 22. She had been deprived of water for 27 hours.
To help further craft their vision for criminal justice reform, Bishop T.D. Jakes and a Dallas County judge visited the Dallas County Jail last Wednesday…
Social media users were critical in August when Marie Holmes, 26, of Wilmington, North Carolina paid $9 million to twice bail out her fiancé, Lamarr McDow, from jail.
After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, a Christian, has been…
Marie Holmes stole our hearts when she won a $188 million Powerball jackpot. She reportedly used part of her jackpot to bail her fiancé
In the week since Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell, just three days after she was pulled over and arrested for failure…
The family of Sandra Bland has taken matters into their own hands regarding the 28-year-old’s alleged suicide in a Texas jail cell. According to NBC…
