A new report from MetricMaps details a shocking statistic — in 16 states in the nation, there are more people locked up in correctional facilities than those…
via: rnbphilly.com Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing children. Sandusky was accused of sexually abusing children he met through his charity for troubled youth. Sandusky was facing 400 years behind bars for 45 counts of child sexual abuse, but age 68 […]
A southeast Texas man has been sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison for scalding his girlfriend’s year-old-son in a bathtub. Orange County District…
KHOU.Com is reporting that a Texas teenager pled guilty to three counts of bank robbery, after his mother identified him to the FBI. 19-year old Anthony Blue has been sentenced to approximately five years in federal prison. Read More
via:christianpost There are three ways to join the drug cartels – by choice, by force, or in spirit. Thousands freely choose to work for the half dozen or so major drug cartels in Mexico and for the hundreds of smaller, independent drug gangs because it’s their only chance to get rich – or simply […]
New York will pay $3.5 million to a mother whose son died when two prison aides violently restrained him at the former Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, NY in 2006. SEE ALSO: Teen Commits Suicide By Piranha According to the lawsuit, Darryl Thompson stopped breathing and died shortly after prison workers failed to respond to his […]
via: click2houston.com HOUSTON – A Houston attorney who had more than 9,000 images of child pornography on his computers has been sentenced to four years in federal prison. Prosecutors on Monday announced the sentence for 50-year-old William George Gammon. Read More
via:eurweb Tavis Smiley will sit down with four wrongfully-convicted men who, despite their innocence, spent more than a combined 50 years in prison. The conversation airs on the award-winning PBS program Tavis Smiley, exclusively on Chicago’s WYCC-TV this Wednesday, June 29 and nationwide on public television Thursday, June 30 and Friday, July 1, 2011. Read […]
via:eurweb Ex-New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, a week after his release from prison on gun charges, pledged on Monday to preach against gun violence to America’s children. The 2008 Super Bowl star said the volunteer effort was the right move after serving nearly all of his 20-month sentence for weapons possession. In […]
HOUSTON - No more “getting away with murder” in the Lone Star State: that’s the message from the Texas Legislature. The state Senate passed a bill on Wednesday - one previously approved by the House - that would take probation off the table for defendants convicted of first degree murder. The result: automatic prison time. No probation.
