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June 18, 2012
VIDEO - A DC training program to help young fathers returning from prison find jobs to pay child support, reconnect…
June 18, 2012
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Jailhouse calls show that the former neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin told his wife…
June 15, 2012
Over 60 men like Terrell McCullum are presently behind bars for carrying a gun, but it's not a crime at…
June 14, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader imprisoned for three…
June 8, 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn't have access to a television, computer or telephone in the small solo…
June 6, 2012
Last year a 24-year-old transgender woman, Chrishaun 'CeCe' McDonald, was arrested for killing a man who harassed her with racial…
June 1, 2012
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of inmates at Pelican Bay, a
May 31, 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is about begin a three-month jail sentence in Las Vegas in a…
May 30, 2012
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Judges at an international war crimes court have sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50…
May 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The University of Michigan Law School in a joint project with Northwestern University Law School has released…
May 16, 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A new lawyer for O.J. Simpson filed a new attempt Tuesday to gain his release from…
May 10, 2012
Marissa Alexander, a Florida mother of three, faces 20 years in prison for shooting at her husband...
May 8, 2012
DALLAS FORT-WORTH - A sheriff's deputy in Ohio has been fired for ordering jail inmates to dance to an Usher…
May 7, 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) Floyd Mayweather Jr. was getting ready to make his ring walk about the time Manny Pacquiao arrived…
April 23, 2012
MIAMI (AP) - In a low-key event, George Zimmerman was released from a Florida jail on $150,000 bail as he…
April 18, 2012
Darrell Dula, a 25-year-old Brooklyn man, spent a year behind bars for a rape he did not commit...
April 13, 2012
This system may be the reason young Black men and boys are criminalized and over-incarcerated relative to others groups...
April 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Zimmerman now spends his days inside a 67 square foot cell at the John E. Polk Correctional…
April 10, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - A rapper's lawyer says his client was "seeking his redemption" by suddenly confessing to police about…
March 7, 2012
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The nonpartisan League of Women Voters and two prisoners' rights groups sued California elections officials on…