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Ex-congressman reports to North Carolina prison

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)   CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has reported to a North Carolina federal...

Former 'Angola 3' inmate dies days after release

A January 2008 photo provided by the Innocence Project and released by The Advocate shows Herman Wallace. Wallace, a 71-year-old Louisiana prisoner who...

Prison Quotas Push Lawmakers To Fill Beds, Derail Reform

After three violent inmates escaped from an Arizona private prison in July 2010, prompting a two-week, multi-state manhunt, state corrections officials demanded...

Ariel Castro dead; Cleveland kidnapper committed suicide in prison cell

  Ariel Castro committed suicide by hanging himself with a bedsheet in his prison cell, officials said. (CNN) -- Ariel Castro, who was sentenced...

Prison-Industrial Complex? Maybe It's Time For A Schools-Industrial Complex

Inmates sit in crowded conditions at California State Prison in Los Angeles. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way...

30 Months Prison For Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandra, arrive at federal court in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013, to learn their fates...

Man Gets Life Sentence For 2004 Double Homicide

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (STMW) – Zion resident Marcus Brown received a sentence of natural life in prison Monday for the 2004 double homicide of...

Lauryn Hill Checks Into Prison For Three-Month Stint

Lauryn Hill performs during her set at the “L.A. Rising” concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum, Saturday, July 30, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Well, Lauryn Hill has finally checked into prison today, according to TMZ[1]. The former Fugees star was booked into the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., around 11:45 a.m. It is a minimum security facility and Hill will live in barracks-type housing. According to the entertainment news site, Hill will be housed with the general population. As NewsOne previously reported[4], Hill pleaded guilty to three charges of failing to pay $1.8 million for three tax years from 2005 to 2007. If her tax woes weren’t enough, the Grammy Award-winning singer was sued by her landlord after she allegedly stop paying rent on her New Jersey home. ...

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