Inmate released early for losing weight
George McCovery shed 25 pounds in 20 days on the "lose-a-pound, gain-a-day" plan suggested by Lake County Judge Donna Miller, but he wouldn't necessarily recommend the diet to others...
Supreme Court to consider life in prison for juveniles
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether juveniles convicted of killing someone may be locked up for life with no chance of parole...
Assata Shakur liberated from prison 32 years ago today
Queen Mother Assata Olugbala Shakur -- was freed from being held captive in a United Snakes concentration camp, on November 2nd 1979...
Change in crack sentencing means early releases
WASHINGTON (AP) - The disparity in sentences for crack versus powder cocaine had long been criticized as racially discriminatory because it disproportionately affected black defendants...
Black men make up 40 percent of England's youth jail popuation
Young black men now account for nearly 40% of the population of youth jails in England and Wales, according to a report by the chief inspector of prisons...
Cleared man freed from La. prison after 30 years
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A man convicted of raping a woman in 1981 but cleared last month by DNA tests was freed from a Louisiana prison Friday after nearly 30 years behind bars...
Texas prisons stop serving inmates lunch on weekends
Hip Hop Wired - By not feeding inmates three meals a day on Saturday and Sunday, the Texas prison system thinks it will save upward of $2.8 million...
Black woman behind bars 53 days by mistake
theGRIO REPORT - Atlanta police have launched an internal investigation into the botched case of an African-American woman who was left to languish in jail for nearly two months after she was arrested by mistake...
High court looks at routine strip searches in jail
WASHINGTON (AP) - The justices were to hear arguments Wednesday in a case they could use to rule on whether jails may routinely strip search people who have been arrested, no matter the reason...
More black men in prison than slaves in 1850?
It's a heartbreaking, but often understated, reality that America's criminal justice system imprisons black folks at astonishingly high rates.
