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October 20, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Atlanta police have launched an internal investigation into the botched case of an African-American woman who was…
October 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The justices were to hear arguments Wednesday in a case they could use to rule on whether…
October 11, 2011
It's a heartbreaking, but often understated, reality that America's criminal justice system imprisons black folks at astonishingly high rates.
October 11, 2011
Cliché or not, it is hard not to imagine the familiar trumpet score along with the thwock, thwock, thwock of…
October 5, 2011
T.I is home and he feels like he has a right to celebrate even though there are some media folks…
September 27, 2011
theGRIO REPORT- An inmate in a prison near Montgomery, Ala., has filed a lawsuit in a federal court claiming that…
September 27, 2011
Last Friday, Mark Melvin, who is serving a life sentence at Kilby, filed suit in federal court against the prison's…
September 23, 2011
VIDEO - 'It's not a crime prevention program,' Bay Minette Police Chief Mike Rowland said, 'It's a crime intervention program'...
September 22, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A California appeals court has rejected a transgender inmate's attempt to force the state to pay…
September 20, 2011
NEW YORK - Lorenzo Pollard, 31, made the weapon from a bedsheet and and a chair, and used them to…
September 8, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - T.I. was sent back to federal prison after corrections officials discovered a manager and a TV producer…
September 3, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Cincinnati Bengals running back Cedric Benson has been released from a Texas jail after serving five…
September 2, 2011
OPINION - What possessed T.I.'s handlers to allow him to make his trip from Arkansas to an Atlanta halfway house…
September 2, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The Federal Bureau of Prisons website Friday shows the rapper at the Atlanta penitentiary with a release…
September 1, 2011
OPINION - Prison isn't an artist colony. It's not a place that nurtures the creativity and passion of individuals and…
August 31, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The rapper was sentenced to 11 months in prison in October for breaking his federal probation after…
August 18, 2011
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - ESPN analyst and former NBA player Jalen Rose has been released from a suburban Detroit jail…
August 17, 2011
In his letter, the Atlanta rhyme-spitter vows to return stronger than ever as he plans to start over again with…
August 10, 2011
Who would have thought Beanie Sigel would ever head back to prison? And if you did think the Broad Street…
August 4, 2011
OPINION - New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the billionaire financier George Soros have teamed up to aid African-American and…