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Phylicia Rashad is reversing her pro-Bill Cosby comments. On Wednesday, the 73-year-old actress drew swift criticism after celebrating Cosby’s controversial prison release: “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted,” she posted alongside a photo of the disgraced comedian, “a miscarriage of justice is corrected.” Rashad, who played Cosby’s wife Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, clearly failed to read […]
Warning: The below article contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. A Tampa man was sentenced to life in prison on Monday after being convicted of molesting his girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter, and attempting to cover up the evidence by using bleach, per WTSP. Lewis Matthews was 43 years old when he undressed, molested, and sexually battered his girlfriend’s daughter […]
The Trump administration released around 4,500 prisoners to home confinement during the pandemic to prevent them from catching COVID-19. Some thought Joe Biden would extend the policy, but it seems the White House may be looking to send almost all those inmates back to prison once the public health emergency is over, which is in line with […]
After a judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Friday to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd on Friday, people couldn’t help but feel like the punishment did not fit the crime. The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in […]
John McAfee’s widow is dismissing the suicide claims surrounding the software mogul’s recent death. On Friday, 38-year-old Janice McAfee told reporters she had spoken to her husband just hours before he was found dead inside a Spanish prison cell. John, the creator of the eponymous antivirus brand, had been at the detention facility since October and was awaiting extradition […]
The family of a Brooklyn man who died in prison has filed a lawsuit against the federal government and Federal Bureau of Prisons staff, saying he died as jail guards stood by and watched. Jamel Floyd passed away on June 3 in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, with his mother Donna Mays alleging that his death could […]
South Carolina’s top court has delayed the executions of two inmates where were scheduled to die by electric chair within the upcoming week. According to the Associated Press, the state’s Supreme Court determined that Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens—two men convicted of separate murders—could not be executed until they had the option of death by firing […]
On his 21st birthday, incarcerated “The Race” rapper Tay-K offered his fans an update from jail, and said that there’s still some hope for his release. Tay-K was found guilty of murder in 2019 and is currently serving 55 years behind bars, but in his first public comments in quite some time he suggested that he’s got […]
On Wednesday, 28-year-old Spanish man Alberto Sánchez Gómez was sentenced to 15 years behind bars for killing and then eating his mother in 2019, BBC reports. Gómez was first arrested in February 2019 after authorities discovered human body parts in and around his mother’s apartment in Madrid. Per a report from British tabloid the Sun back in April, […]
Two prison guards assigned to keep watch on Jeffrey Epstein the night he died in his jail cell have admitted they falsified records. The Associated Press reports that the two Bureau of Prisons workers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, will not face time behind bars despite allegations they slept and browsed the internet instead of […]
