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NEW YORK (AP) — A weeklong power failure at a federal detention center in New York City spawned a humanitarian crisis that left inmates shivering in the dark and without access to visitors on some of the coldest days of the year, advocates said in a lawsuit filed Monday. The Federal Defenders of New York, […]

A Georgia teenager spent his 17th birthday being booked on charges of armed robbery and false imprisonment in connection to two robberies that took place last year. Maximus Buckley was arrested on Jan. 2, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  He’s reportedly accused of pointing a gun at employees of a Taco Bell on May 8, […]

Washington state has legalized marijuana and will be pardoning those convicted of a misdemeanor marijuana possession before it was legalized. Convictions will be removed from the individuals criminal history and will open opportunity for those individuals to get jobs, find housing and more. DL is in full support of this change especially because people are […]

The family of Lanekia Michelle Brown, 37, wants to know why their pregnant loved one recently passed away in a Mississippi jail over the weekend. According to WJTV News, Lanekia was awaiting trial for marijuana trafficking in the Madison County Detention Center when she complained of having stomach pains. By the time the nurse arrived […]

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Her name was Lanekia Michelle Brown and her family is demanding answers.

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GREENUP, Ky. (AP) — A jail inmate who escaped from authorities and tried hitchhiking along a highway didn’t enjoy freedom for long because the motorist he flagged down was a law enforcement officer. Greenup County Jailer Mike Worthington told The Independent that 31-year-old Allen Lewis was being transported on Tuesday to face charges in another county when […]

Court records confirm that an inmate who died while in the custody of the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office on Friday had been held in jail on a $300 bond since July. According to KSAT,  61-year-old Janice Dotson-Stephens was arrested July 17 on a criminal charge of trespassing on private property. The misdemeanor charge was reportedly her first arrest. KSAT […]

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The Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping criminal justice overhaul. The House is expected to pass the bill this week, sending it to President Donald Trump for his signature. The bill : —Attempts to focus the toughest sentences on the most violent offenders by lowering mandatory minimum sentences for prior drug felonies, including reducing the life […]

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If you’re a Buju Banton fan, you are no doubt celebrating his recent release from a federal prison in Georgia where he was released after serving a 7 year sentence. The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Banton had been released from the McRae Correctional Facility on Friday (12-07-18), according to CNN. Banton found himself on the bad […]

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GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania man released from jail immediately stole a car from its parking lot. Westmoreland County Prison officials say that moments after 36-year-old Thomas Lee Williams was released, he attacked a woman in the parking lot Tuesday evening and stole her car with the victim’s 1-year-old in the back […]

Precious Jones, 34, received a speeding ticket in St. Louis during Mothers Day weekend 2017. But, she missed her August court date. “It slipped my mind,” she told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  Jones turned herself in to local police, paid the bond on her outstanding warrant, and called the court to set up a new court date. […]

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Marion “Suge” Knight has been transferred to the Wasco State Prison and Reception Center in California, which could become his home for the next 28 years. The rap legend was sentenced to 28 years in state prison in October for the January 2015 hit-and-run incident in Compton, California that resulted in the death of 55-year-old Terry Carter. He […]