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US rapper Young Thug was released from jail Thursday evening after pleading guilty to gang, drug and gun charges, in a dramatic twist that ended the longest criminal trial in Georgia history. The 33-year-old Grammy winner, born Jeffery Lamar Williams, has spent more than 900 days behind bars since his arrest on racketeering and gang-related […]
Farmerville, Louisiana AP — A Louisiana state trooper pleaded no contest Monday to significantly reduced charges that spare him jail time in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, the first conviction of any kind in a prolonged police brutality case that once prompted national outrage. Kory York had faced the most serious charges […]
A former University of Kentucky student caught on camera assaulting a black student worker while repeatedly calling her the n-word will spend a year in jail that will be served out in protective custody, a judge ruled last week. Sophia Rosing was hit with a 12-month prison term after pleading guilty to charges of […]
For decades in the US, the incarceration rate for African Americans has been much higher than for whites, a racial disparity the US Attorney General Eric Holder has described as “shameful”. In part to address this, Mr Holder unveiled a policy shift, external that will mean the US locks up fewer people convicted of non-violent, […]
Sandra Hemme, a 64-year-old Missouri woman with a history of mental illness, was recently declared innocent of a murder she spent over four decades in prison for. The judge ruled her innocence “clear and convincing,” but she hasn’t been released yet. Prosecutors are appealing the decision and want Hemme to stay behind bars. They argue […]
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — An American man who was facing up to 12 years in jail on this Caribbean island for bringing 20 rounds of ammunition on a vacation has been freed after a court ruling Friday. Bryan Hagerich was arrested in February while on a vacation with his wife and two children. He pleaded […]
A Black inmate at a Georgia jail accused a corrections officer of choking him with a leg restraint and making a racist comment while three other officers watched, according to a lawsuit. Tremar Harris sued three corrections officers with the Appling County Sheriff’s Office in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia on […]
By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington 19 March 2024, 18:31 GMT Updated 36 minutes ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, SB4 gives police officers in Texas broad powers to arrest migrants. The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to enforce one of the toughest immigration laws enacted by any US state in recent memory. […]
South Florida rapper Kodak Black has been freed from jail after a federal judge sentenced him to time served for a probation violation, though a drug trafficking case from 2022 remains ongoing February 21, 2024, 7:04 PM ET • 2 min read MIAMI — South Florida rapper Kodak Black was freed from jail Wednesday after […]
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