A Georgia pastor is facing false imprisonment charges, along with his wife has disputed the allegations. Griffin Police claim 55-year-old Curtis Bankston, the founder of One Step Faith Ministries, and his wife, Sophia Simms Bankston were using their house as an unlicensed group home, where seven to eight people ranging in age from 23 to 65 […]
On Nov. 12, a North Carolina man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 24-years for murder has been pardoned by the Gov. Roy Cooper. Dontae Sharpe is now declared innocent of a crime he spent decades declaring he did not commit according to NPR. Gov. Cooper took office in 2017, says he reviewed the case. Sharpe’s […]
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The basketball player’s death could have been one of the off-ramps in Lucas’s spiral into crack addiction and dealing. By then, he could make $10,000 in four to five hours selling the drug. “One of the things that I thought would help me, that I thought would be my rehab, was when Len Bias died,” […]
Giyoh Shey, who has almost 800,000 followers on TikTok and whose videos have garnered close to 10 million likes, is using his influence to put a spotlight on the injustices of the criminal justice system, KCUR reports. In a video posted on Tuesday that has received close to 1 million views, Shey spoke about the cases […]
Bobby Paul Edwards, a former South Carolina restaurant manager who’s serving a 10-year prison sentence for forcing a Black man with intellectual disabilities to work more than 100 hours a week without pay, is now ordered to pay $546,000 in restitution. According to The Post and Courier, Edwards was initially told to pay $273,000 during his sentencing […]