Unlike most parolees, a former prisoner made an attempt to return to jail so he could receive proper health care. Ex-convict Frank Morrocco tried to get arrested again after he shoplifted $23 worth of items from a supermarket on November 26. He later turned himself in once hearing there was a federal warrant issued for […]
Chris Paul blasts through 60 seconds of the Hostess’ imminent revival, lowered gas prices, and the transgender inmate. Click here to listen to the full Morning Minute. This is Chris Paul from the TJMS running through the top stories in roughly sixty seconds with The Morning Minute. Great news, according to the CEO of […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Dental floss may prevent toothaches, but it's given jailers plenty of headaches. When a group of New York prisoners sued last month to demand access to dental floss, officials said they had to consider "security issues." As it turns out, jail — and jailbreak — history is tightly tangled with […]
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) — Officials have found three inmates thought to have escaped through a tunnel at a northern Mexico border prison. The number of still-escaped prisoners now stands at 129. The public safety secretary of the northern border state of Coahuila says three female inmates were found hiding in a prison visiting area. […]
The Obama administration has requested a comprehensive review and analysis of all federal inmate commutation guidelines after a recent investigation revealed whites are far more likely to receive presidential pardons than any other race and blacks typically fare at least four times worse off than any other group in even being recommended for such treatment. […]
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jailed reggae star Buju Banton wants a new trial in U.S. federal court. Last month, the federal appeals court in Atlanta upheld the Jamaican singer's 2011 conviction on cocaine conspiracy and trafficking charges. The three-judge panel also sided with a Tampa jury's conviction of Banton on a gun possession charge, which […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's execution law Friday, calling it unconstitutional. In a split decision, the high court sided with 10 death row inmates who argued that, under Arkansas' constitution, only the Legislature can set execution policy. Legislators in 2009 voted to give that authority to the […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Jailers in Atlanta have a challenge for inmates: Get past the new locks being tested on cell doors and win free food. Officials have been trying to figure out what to do about hundreds of locks which can be jammed at the Fulton County Jail, allowing inmates to get to each other. […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge David Hittner handed down the […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is about begin a three-month jail sentence in Las Vegas in a domestic violence case. The undefeated boxer's legal and ring advisers weren't immediately commenting Thursday about Mayweather's scheduled Friday morning surrender in court. The case stems from a hair-pulling, arm-twisting attack on the mother of three […]
If racists were ever looking for a strategy to enslave black people again, they need only look to Louisiana. According to the Times-Picayune, the Bayou State now imprisons more of its people – one in 86 adults – than anywhere else in the world. Among black men from New Orleans, 1 in 14 is incarcerated, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) â The Obama administration ordered federal, state and local officials Thursday to adopt zero tolerance for prison rape as it issued mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations designed to reduce the number of inmates who suffer sexual victimization at the hands of other prisoners and prison staff. Anti-rape advocates and victims of prison […]
