(Abandon) ALL HOPE “Writings of Incarcerated Women Inspired by Dante’s Inferno”
A show written by imprisoned women at York Correctional Institute together with Wesleyan students, containing insight into and adaptation of Dante’s writing. The show will be performed by members of the Documentary Theatre Performance class and women formerly incarcerated at York CI.
Discussion to follow [ Read More ]
Author Archive
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 19, 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Former boxing champ Edwin Valero committed suicide in his jail cell on Monday just hours after he was arrested in his wife’s killing, police said.
The former lightweight champion used his own clothes to hang himself in his cell early Monday, Venezuelan Federal Police Chief Wilmer [ Read More ]
By Gina Gomez
New York, Apr 4, (THAINDIAN NEWS) There is some real good news for all the fans of much acclaimed rapper Lil Wayne, as the musical artist has launched a brand new website while he is serving a prison term for carrying a loaded weapon in his tour bus. The main aim behind launching [ Read More ]
By NICK DIVITO
WASHINGTON (CN) – The use of two secret, experimental prison units used to isolate Muslim inmates is unconstitutional, the Center for Constitutional Rights claims in federal court. Five inmates say they were classified as low or medium security and had relatively clean disciplinary histories. Still, because they are [ Read More ]
ESPN
WASHINGTON — Suspended Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas was ordered Friday to spend 30 days in a halfway house for his conviction on gun charges stemming from a locker-room confrontation with a teammate.
District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin also sentenced Arenas to 400 hours of community service, which cannot be conducted at [ Read More ]
HipHopRX
Pop/R&B teen sensation Justin Bieber’s manager was arrested in Long Island, New York at Roosevelt Field Mall for reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance after failing to properly control a crowd of hormone ranging teens for a scheduled mall appearance for the singer on last November.
Scott “Scooter” Braun, 28, also the manager of rapper [ Read More ]
A California couple that went on the Dr. Phil” show to discuss their work as professional shoplifters have been sentenced to prison terms, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Matthew Eaton, 34, got a 27-month s sentence and his wife Nora, 27, got a year.
The judge also took a swipe at Dr. Phil McGraw, calling him [ Read More ]
By DIONNE SEARCEY And AMIR EFRATI
Associated Press
The Butner federal prison in July. A man who served time with Bernard Madoff there says the financier gave him investment advice.
Bernard Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence in North Carolina for running a fraud scheme that cost investors billions of dollars, was physically assaulted by another inmate [ Read More ]
TMZ
Lil Wayne had a perfectly good reason for missing his court date in Arizona today — he’s currently behind bars in New York. But Yuma County didn’t care … and issued a bench warrant for his arrest.
Wayne pled not guilty in the past to a litany of drug charges related to a January 2008 arrest, [ Read More ]
(AFP)
WASHINGTON — The US prison population was little changed in 2009 with a rate of one out of 100 Americans who are old enough to be incarcerated, a study showed Wednesday.
Combining state and federal figures, the total prison population rose by 1,099 inmates to 2.3 million, out of 230 million people old enough to be [ Read More ]
By Philip Miller
Prison really sucks. I mean it REALLY sucks. Of course, I might just be overreacting to the overly warm sense of hospitality provided by my benefactors. I can’t receive this treatment just anywhere, you know. Really, where else could I have someone bang a baton against metal bars in order to wake [ Read More ]
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: February 18, 2010
The judge and the juvenile had grown up on the same mean streets, 40 years apart. And in fall 1996, they faced each other in a New York court where children are prosecuted as adults, but sentenced like candidates for redemption.
Mr. Wu with his fiancée. When he was jailed last [ Read More ]
By SFGATE
Actor Lane Garrison has spoken out about his recent prison hell, revealing he was forced to live in squalid conditions in solitary confinement.
The former “Prison Break” star was jailed in 2007 after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for a December 2006 car crash that claimed the life of a 17-year-old.
Released last [ Read More ]
By JESSE LEAVENWORTH The Hartford Courant
February 16, 2010
The nation’s oldest death row inmate — a delusional killer, escape artist and jailhouse lawyer who spent much of his life in Connecticut prisons — has died at age 94.
Viva LeRoy Nash died of natural causes in an Arizona prison, where he had lingered on death [ Read More ]
After many complications, the Part 1 of the Immortal Technique interview is back up.
Stay tuned for Part 2
By dentistry…
10:27, Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Lil Wayne will not be entering prison this week as expected because he needs to visit the dentist! The rapper was due to be sentenced yesterday but instead will now be back in court on March 2 after surgery on his teeth. He will serve a year in jail for [ Read More ]
From WNYC
Friday, February 05, 2010
“In prisons around the world, music is increasingly used as a rehabilitative tool. Carnegie Hall recently launched a program that would send musicians into facilities like Sing Sing and Riker’s Island. Other programs including the nonprofit Rehabilitation through the Arts and the Scottish Arts Council are getting inmates to learn, write [ Read More ]
by Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Ohio State football star Maurice Clarett is again seeking early release from prison.
Clarett, who scored the winning touchdown for the Buckeyes in the 2002 national title game, has filed a motion asking a judge to release him. No court date has been set.
Clarett withdrew a similar request filed with [ Read More ]
By Todd Brockington
I rose with the sun,
Yawned, stretched and strove for the one
Thing that I could get my day started
That be freedom like used to rest in apartment 6I,
Bravehearted, shit I faced the odds wit squinted eyes
Graveyarded many ties to minimize fake shit these nigaz try and legitimize
It’s basic, the tension you can taste it
Teeth [ Read More ]
By Joseph Kim
It wasn’t what I had expected it to be like at all. The hall was full of bright color and lined with great windows. To the left were shelves of toys and books and straight ahead were several vending machines. It was full of visitors, but it was quiet and oddly peaceful. There [ Read More ]
By Jerzey
So I guess this guy’s on his way out – maybe. He is five cells to my left when I’m on the bars. Last night at 1:50 AM I awoke to a man screaming, moaning and crying in his sleep from a nightmare. It woke me up out of a dead sleep. I gotta [ Read More ]
By Zachary Miller
I first met Mike in the spring of my freshman year. That’s not to say that I didn’t know who he was by then—he was a pretty recognizable figure on campus, being one of a dozen or so black kids in the entire school. I was always intrigued by him; he seemed like [ Read More ]
By Mark E. Dixon
For decades, the criminal class has influenced the way civilians have dressed, and styled their hair. From the wise guys wearing “matador” slacks in the seventies, to the new generations, opting for the work clothes look, found in all prisons.
As a youngster in the seventies, I found it hard to ignore the [ Read More ]
