OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma County inmate found dead in his jail cell last weekend was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the county alleging that in 2019, he and other inmates were tortured by jail employees who forced them to repeatedly listen to the children’s song “Baby Shark” for hours. John Basco, 48, […]
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A North Carolina county and a local sheriff’s office have agreed to pay $3 million settlement to the family of a Black man who died in the county jail. The settlement comes almost two months after a grand jury didn’t indict corrections officers for John Neville’s death in December 2019 and pinned charges on a […]
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The incident took place in Tampa in May of 2021 when customer Vonelle Cook died after an incident with Pujols. After delivering one punch, Pujols inadvertently killed the man, WTVT Tampa reported. Pujols was charged with battery on May 5 and it was increased to aggravated manslaughter when Cook, who hit his head on the store’s […]
Jenna Ryan has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after thinking her white privilege was going to protect her from going to jail. The Texas real estate agent plead guilty in July to a misdemeanor charge of being on Capitol grounds in during the riots in January Ryan faced up to six months in […]
On April 24, 1959, a white mob abducted Mack Charles Parker from the Pearl River County Jail in Poplarville, Mississippi, where he was awaiting trial for the alleged crime of rape. The mob dragged Parker from his cell shot him twice in the chest, and then weighted his body with chains and threw him into […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A noncommissioned Army officer depicted in a viral video accosting and shoving a man in a South Carolina neighborhood has been convicted of third-degree assault. A magistrate judge found Fort Jackson Army Sgt. Jonathan Pentland guilty of the misdemeanor Monday after a two-day trial, news outlets reported. He will have to choose […]
A Florida mother lost her newborn daughter after she was forced to deliver inside of a jail cell. 25-year-old Erica Thompson was at the Alachua County Jail in Gainesville when she went into labor, CBS 4 reports. Thompson says she told the nurse that she was having contractions but she says she was ignored. “When I […]
White woman who stole $250K gets probation, while Black woman who stole $40K goes to jail. Disparate sentences spark calls for reform Two Ohio judges hand down very different sentences to two women for stealing. A white woman stole approx. $250,000 from the village of Chagrin Fallas and Judge Hollie Gallagher sentenced her on Aug. […]