A Chicago man plead guilty to stealing $537,088.22 in coins while he was working as an armored car driver in 2019 between May and August according to CWB Chicago. 31-year-old Cameron Bowman received a sentence of 24 months probation after he plead guilty to felony theft. Haberkorn ordered him to pay $525,000 restitution to his former […]
Pamela Moses, the Memphis woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote before completing probation, has been freed from all criminal charges. Moses was convicted last year after prosecutors said she violated the Tennessee law which requires people with felonies to complete all terms of their sentence, including […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee state senator expelled from office after a conviction for using federal grant money on wedding expenses instead of the nursing school she operates was sentenced Friday to a year of probation but no prison time. Katrina Robinson had faced four to 10 months in prison under sentencing guidelines […]
Illinois high school student posted racist ‘slave for sale’ ad on Craigslist with a photo of a Black classmate in 2019 has been sentenced to probation and 100 hours of community service A Illinois teen has been sentenced to probation and community service almost two years after he posted a fellow Black classmate as a […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The second of two white men who brutally beat a Black man during what the victim said was a racist attack has been sentenced to probation. Jesse James Downs, 29, was sentenced Wednesday to a year of probation after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct, the Des Moines Register reported. […]
A Hamilton County judge ordered a Cincinnati, Ohio, man to get the COVID-19 shot as a condition of his probation, WCPO reports. Judge Christopher Wagner required Brandon Rutherford to be vaccinated within 60 days or face the possibility of prison time. Although it’s not required at the Hamilton County Courthouse, Rutherford wore a mask as […]
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. […]
HARTFORD, Conn. — A white woman who was charged with a hate crime after being caught on video spitting on a Black woman during a protest in Connecticut was allowed to enter a special probation program Wednesday that could leave her with no criminal record. Yuliya Gilshteyn, 45, was granted accelerated rehabilitation, a special probation […]
A 76-year-old woman was sent back to prison because her probation officials couldn’t contact her for a few hours, the Washington Post reports. The woman had been in a computer class. Gwen Levi qualified as one of the 4,500 federal inmates who were released early from prison because of a nationwide effort to release some incarcerated […]
McKinley Bates III was charged with several drug and weapons felonies and faced 10 years in prison. He spent three months behind bars awaiting trial. However, officials from the Concordia Parish District Attorney reviewed footage of the alleged misconduct, prosecutors later dropped charges Bates. In January 2020, Bates filed a federal lawsuit against Lane Normand, […]