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DETROIT (AP) — A contractor convicted of tag-teaming with a Detroit mayor to commit corruption worth millions was sentenced Friday…
DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, the apparent…
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A U.S. judge is allowing Lauryn Hill to go on tour before completing her sentence…
(AP) — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was released from federal prison Friday and will spend three months under home confinement…
MSNBC - Herman Wallace, a member of the “Angola 3,” died Friday morning, three days after a federal judge overturned…
ATLANTA (AP) — Ja Rule, who recently spent nearly two years behind bars for illegal gun possession, landed a role…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 71-year-old Louisiana prisoner who spent 41 years in solitary confinement and is now dying of…
NBC NEWS - Marissa Alexander will have a new opportunity to seek justice after being sentenced to 20 years in…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The father of one of four black girls killed in a 1963 racist church bombing in…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Rap star 'Fat Joe' has reported to federal prison in Florida to serve a 4-month sentence…
OPINION - Prison reform is one of those issues that seems impossible to make progress on because prisoners and their…
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — A U.S. judge approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates if necessary…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson says it's been "an extraordinarily difficult time" for his family. He was…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has been sentenced to one year in prison…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday after…
theGRIO REPORT - Wednesday, former embattled Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and wife Sandi will learn their fate in a…
NBC NEWS - Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. will learn whether and for how long he could go to prison…
CHICAGO (AP) — The genesis of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s decline dates to when he chose to forgo divinity studies and…
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has said where he wants to serve time for illegally spending $750,000…
theGRIO REPORT - Standing to Achieve New Directions (STAND, Inc.) will receive the award from the Substance Abuse and Mental…