Couple charged with starving their 6-month-old child
VIDEO - The 6-month-old child of Stephanie McCarley and Devin Jay Davis weighed only nine pounds at the time of his death this past April...
Prisoners could be released early for crack crimes
WASHINGTON (AP) - One in every 20 federal prisoners could be eligible for early release under a potential sentencing change to be voted today for inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses...
Does darker skin mean harsher prison sentences?
theGRIO REPORT - A new study sheds light on the fact that colorism, or racial preference based on skin tone, may be alive and well in our judicial system...
Crack cocaine defendants deserve second chance
OPINION - There is no question that the U.S. Sentencing Commission should seek to amend the sentencing provisions so as to retroactively apply to qualifying inmates...
Why Mumia Abu-Jamal's second chance at life matters
OPINION - Anti-death penalty advocates have long argued that Abu-Jamal's 1982 trial was unfair, and that the application of the death penalty has been racially biased...
Court grants new sentencing for Mumia Abu-Jamal
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 58-year-old former Black Panther's first-degree murder conviction still stands in the fatal shooting of white officer Daniel Faulkner...
Ja Rule's NY sentencing date to be set next month
NEW YORK (AP) -- Police said they found a loaded gun in a rear door of his luxury sportscar when it was stopped for speeding after a July 2007 concert.
Ex-Chicago cop gets 4½ years in torture case
CHICAGO (AP) - Dozens of people -- almost all of them black men -- claimed for decades that Burge and his officers tortured them into confessing to crimes...
Ex-Chicago cop doesn't admit guilt in torture case
CHICAGO (AP) - Standing before the court, Jon Burge said he knew his case brought the department into disrepute and "for that, I am deeply sorry."...
Ex-Chicago cop awaits sentence in torture case
CHICAGO (AP) - Dozens of suspects -- almost all of them black men -- claimed for decades that Jon Burge and his officers tortured them into confessing to crimes...
