NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana parole board granted parole on Wednesday to Henry Montgomery, whose Supreme Court case was instrumental in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to life in prison without the opportunity for parole when they were juveniles. Montgomery, 75, was convicted in the 1963 killing of East Baton […]
Shanga Hankerson, 45, has been sentenced to two years in prison for unpaid taxes. Hankerson son of legendary soul singer Gladys Knight, allegedly used the owed tax money on sex parties and marijuana. Hankerson, is the former owner of Atlanta-based Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles restaurant, reportedly failed to fully remit more than $650,000 state sales […]
A 83-year-old man has always maintained that he didn’t kill his wife in 1974, has now been found not guilty after serving 45 years in prison. Isaiah Andrews has been vindicated after a new trial was granted to him in 2020 once his attorneys from the Ohio Innocence Project found compelling evidence pointing to another […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A man who spent 21 years in prison over the killings of two people in a Bakersfield gang shooting that he denied committing was freed Thursday, his lawyers announced. Dwight Jones, 41, was released from the Lerdo Pretrial Facility in the California central valley community, according to the Project for the […]
“They also heard the hostess say, ‘Yeah, you guys can leave my restaurant,’ or something very aggressive like that,” he continued, “When Dr. Rankin hears that, she turns around and addresses the hostess. She tells her: ‘This isn’t your restaurant. You’re just a staff member here. Please address us with respect.’” Carolyn Richmond, an lawyer […]
Robert McCallion has plead guilty earlier this month to felony charges which include attempted murder and attempted murder as a hate crime. McCallion is facing 25 years in prison, after he stabbed a Black teen visiting her family last March. McCallion, who is white, confessed to stabbing a 17-year-old girl at an apartment complex where he […]
Ohio’s correctional agency has terminated seven employees after officials say prison guards used excessive and unjustified force against a Black inmate before he died in custody in February COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s correctional agency terminated seven employees Friday after officials say prison guards used excessive and unjustified force against a Black inmate before he died […]
Corey Miller, better known as C-Murder, is leading a hunger strike at a correctional facility in Louisiana over the death of several incarcerated people due to COVID-19. The 49-year-old rapper, who is incarcerated at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, said in a statement provided by his publicist, that the institution participates in practices that jeopardize […]
What would you do if you became the only non-criminal locked up in Britain’s most violent prison? That’s exactly what happened to Peter Sage. His world was turned upside-down when he served 6 months as the only civil prisoner in one of the UK’s toughest jails, but ended up winning acclaim, friends and a national […]
Paul Allard Hodgkins, one of the rioters who raided the Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced on Monday to eight months in prison. “If I had any idea that the protest … would escalate (the way) it did … I would never have ventured farther than the sidewalk of Pennsylvania Avenue,” Hodgkins told Judge Randolph […]