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On Friday, new reports surfaced alleging that Aaron Hernandez had written a suicide note to his prison boyfriend before hanging himself using
Aaron Hernandez committed suicide in prison on Wednesday morning, the Department of Correction confirmed. He was 27.
As part of a new "Raise the Age" initiative, New York has announced that it will no longer prosecute 16-…
On Friday during a City Hall news conference, Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed that he would shut down Riker's Island.
A study shows that black people are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to be convicted of a crime…
"Gary from Chicago" was released from a California prison after serving 20 years only three days before the Oscars
This summer, O.J. Simpson is up for parole. Simpson has been locked up in Lovelock Correctional Center since 2008, and he
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Van Jones didn’t pull any punches when he put his finger on just what
Jay Z believes that Rikers Island should be shut down, and he's pointing to the upcoming Kalief Browder doc premiering…
Officer Michael Dorsainvil is on trial for beating Rikers Island inmate Carl Williams and later claiming that Williams hung himself.
Ava DuVernay's "13th," which premieres on Netflix Oct. 7, is a historical masterpiece that explores the 13th Amendment's "original sin."
Willie Wilson, a Chicago businessman and former candidate for mayor, wants to help give some Cook County inmates a second…
The Ohio Innocence Project received $15 million to continue freeing people who were imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
On Wednesday, a riot at Florida’s Holmes Correctional Institution left almost every single dorm damaged and saw more than 400 inmates
A Georgia jury deliberated for all of 90 minutes before sentencing a truck driver who threw boiling water on a
Jelani Maraj, brother to Nicki Minaj, has been accused of repeatedly raping a 12-year-old, and now, the prosecution says, the
David Norman, at 67 years old, is the oldest member of his graduating class from Columbia University, but the journey