NEW YORK (AP) — A man who repeatedly used phony credentials to gain entry into New York City’s jails may get his wish to do more time. Prosecutors told a judge on Thursday that they want Matthew Matagrano to be locked up for 10 years. Matagrano, a former inmate, pleaded not guilty to felony burglary […]
Experiencing life while a love one is imprisoned can strain your emotions and relationships, but it shouldn’t strain your pocketbook. The Federal Communications Commission finds that the cost of phone calls from incarcerated friends and family members is at an all-time high and they are committed to changing that. In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge struck down Alabama’s decades-old policy of segregating prison inmates with HIV, ruling Friday that it violates federal law. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled in favor of inmates who filed suit to end the longstanding practice. Thompson says the state’s policy violates federal disabilities law. Thompson said the state […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Prison officials in North Carolina are calling for a criminal investigation after inmates alleged correctional officers forced them to rub habanero hot sauce on their genitals, resulting in painful blisters. N.C. Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Pamela Walker said Monday that officials had asked the State Bureau of Investigation to review […]
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 […]
Yasmine Arrington is one of the students that will be honored during this weekend's Black Girls Rock awards show. She started a program that helps the kids of incarcerated parents get to college. Visit Arrington's website at www.scholarCHIPS.com to find out more about the program.
As the trend toward privatizing state prison systems continues to skyrocket, Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest operator of for-profit prisons, is offering to purchase scores more facilities all across the country provided states will guarantee occupancy rates of at least 90 percent over the next 20 years. In a letter penned to […]
Mississippi state regulators are guilty of operating “a school-to-prisons pipeline” placing many of the African-American students now composing more than 60 percent of the county of Lauderdale’s student population in grave and disproportionate danger of being jailed. Trite offenses include dress code violations, use of profanity and other minor acts of defiance, alleges an ongoing […]
WATKINSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities in northeast Georgia say a jail deputy was fired and another resigned after they sent Facebook friend requests to an inmate while she was locked up in the county jail. Oconee County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Lee Weems said Monday that both deputies also had face-to-face conversations of a sexual nature […]
MIAMI (AP) — Locking up illegal immigrants has grown profoundly lucrative for the private prisons industry, a reliable pot of revenue that helped keep some of the biggest companies in business. And while nearly half of the 400,000 immigrants held annually are housed in private facilities, the federal government — which spends $2 billion a […]
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie continues to evade all comment regarding his undeniable involvement and personal endorsement in a system of privately run halfway houses. Initially designed and sold to supplement the state’s general prison system, it now seems to have dangerously spiraled out of control, mutating into a network of mismanaged platforms where drugs, […]
The former heavyweight champion fighter recently came out and revealed he got a prison officer pregnant while serving time. But she never gave birth to the child. The news came during an interview with ESPN’s Rick Reilly who asked him about the stories he plans to share in his upcoming one-man show, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed […]
