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A prisoner serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary was taken to a local hospital in 2015 where he had to be resuscitated five times after his heart stopped. Benjamin Schreiber was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole after being found guilty of first-degree…
Graham Williamson, 38, was sentenced to three years in prison this past Tuesday after he burned a cross next to the home of a Black boy in Mississippi, according to a Newsweek. The cross-burning, which occurred in October 2017, was supposed to frighten residents of the predominantly Black neighborhood named…
The controversial and infamous Rikers Island jail will probably close in the coming years. The New York City Council voted on Thursday to replace it with four separate jails that will be in four of New York City’s five boroughs. Rikers Island is the second-largest jail complex in the entire…
Over the past year, Louisiana has become the unlikely hub of immigrant detention in the United States. Eight thousand migrants out of 51,000 nationally are being detained across eight jails in the state, the Associated Press reported. One of the challenges for immigrants is the location of the eight detention…
Disgraced former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murder for killing Botham Jean, her unarmed neighbor, and could be sentenced to up to 99 years in prison. The jury, made up of a diverse group of people according to a tweet from attorney S. Lee Meritt, took less…
After serving 15 years — half of her life — in prison of what would have been a life sentence, Cyntoia Brown is now free. She left the Tennessee Prison for Women on the morning of Aug. 7. The now 31-year-old was tried as an adult at 16 years old…
Cyntoia Brown will finally walk as a free woman when she is released from jail on August 7. Brown, now 31, has spent half of her life behind bars. Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted Brown clemency eight months ago after being sentenced to life in prison in connection with the…
Kansas is currently one of three states, including Ohio and Tennessee, that does not allow transgender people to amend the names and assigned genders on their birth certificates. That restriction is about to change. Democratic Governor Laura Kelly withdrew opposition to a lawsuit by Luc Bensimon, a transgender man, and…
200 female prisoners at the Lincoln Correctional Center in Illinois were woken up early in the morning by a tactical unit armed with batons and shields. They were handcuffed and made to walk to a gymnasium. Once there, they stood facing the wall for more than an hour until the guards…
Royal Clark Jr. was released from prison after serving time for an armed robbery he didn’t commit. The Louisiana man tasted freedom for the first time on June 27 after serving over 17 years behind bars. The New Orleans Innocence Project’s diligent and necessary work led to Royal’s freedom. In…
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