Lauryn Hill's last show before prison?
NBC New York - Lauryn Hill may have performed her final concert before going to jail for tax evasion...
DC Central Kitchen helps people struggling to join workforce
NBC Washington - DC Central Kitchen, located in Washington D.C., employs adults who are unemployed, recently released from prison, or homeless...
Ja Rule out of prison after 2 years
LOS ANGELES -- U.S. rapper Ja Rule was released from prison on Tuesday after serving about two years on gun and tax evasion charges.
Lauryn Hill gets 3 months for failing to pay taxes
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced Monday to three months in prison and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings.
Prison gang leader allegedly impregnates 4 guards
BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal prosecutors say 13 female correctional officers, seven inmates and five others with gang ties have been charged with plotting to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband into the Baltimore jail and other corrections facilities...
In New Orleans, political brawl over police, jail
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A political brawl has broken out between the mayor and a sheriff who runs the city jail, which has come under scrutiny for a video showing inmates using drugs, drinking beer and handling a gun...
Wesley Snipes released from prison
Snipes was convicted in 2008. He was released Tuesday and placed under home confinement...
60 inmates brawl at Los Angeles jail; several taken to hospital
LOS ANGELES - Guards at a downtown Los Angeles jail fired rubber pellets and pepper spray to swiftly quell a racially charged brawl involving more than 60 inmates, and several injured prisoners were taken to a hospital, a jail spokesman said.
Wrongly convicted man released; 'truly happy' after 14 years in prison
NBC Bay Area - Johnny Williams spent 14 years in prison for an attempted rape he never committed. On Friday, a judge overturned his conviction. And on Tuesday, the 37-year-old Williams spoke publicly for the first time.
Ashanti on Ja Rule: 'He still has what it takes to make a hit record'
theGRIO VIDEO - During an interview with theGrio, singer/songwriter Ashanti talked about her new TV role on 'Army Wives" and defended her former Mrder Inc. label mate, Ja Rule...
