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UPDATED 2/21/23, 10:00 p.m. ET: Brittney Griner is back on the court. The WNBA star was photographed smiling in her Phoenix Mercury practice gear on Tuesday. The team took to Instagram to share a few pictures (above), writing, “There she is.” Griner just signed a new one-year contract with the team. General manager Jim Pitman told the Associated Press, […]
A 72-year-old Indiana woman is facing prison time after she was accused of embezzling nearly $600,000 from the Catholic church where she worked. The Indy Star reports Marie Carson, 72, of Indianapolis, Indiana, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud. Over a 13-year period from 2008 to 2021, Carson, who […]
The state of Ohio will pay $1.3 million to Ralph Blaine Smith, a 49-year-old Black man who was wrongly imprisoned for more than two decades. According to the Columbus Dispatch, the Columbus resident received a 67-year prison sentence in 2000, after he was accused of carrying out an armed robbery in Lancaster. Prosecutors claimed Smith and […]
Baby Blue of the group Pretty Ricky has been released from prison after serving a year of his 20 month sentence on conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges, TMZ reports. The artist was released from the Federal Correctional Institution Coleman Low in Florida on Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed. The 38-year-old musician pled […]
The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) “routinely confines people in its custody” beyond their legally entitled release dates, the Justice Department said this week when announcing the findings of their investigation. Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said Wednesday that the agency’s investigation had found evidence of “systematic […]
A former prison correctional officer was arrested on Wednesday in Hawaii and faces criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of multiple female inmates. Mikael Rivera, 45, of Kapolei, Hawaii, served as a correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu from 2014 to 2018, and during his time at the facility allegedly “committed multiple sexual […]
A Florida man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars in coronavirus relief funds. According to the Department of Justice, Don V. Cisternino, 47, of Chuluota has been sentenced to eight years and six months in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and illegal monetary transaction. The court also ordered Cisternino to […]
Gunna posted on his Instagram feed for the first time since being released from jail in December. The hitmaker spent more than half the year behind bars as part of a sweeping RICO indictment. “N***as acting like they switching to a side But it’s only one side. #YslTheLabel #FreeThug & Yak,” he captioned a solo photo of himself, presumably crafting […]
Move over Cocaine Bear, here comes meth pigeon. OK, not exactly, since the pigeon didn’t ingest any drugs and go on a rampage. But in an Abbotsford, British Columbia prison yard, officials did find a pigeon on the grounds wearing a “backpack” with crystal meth inside. John Randle, the Pacific regional president of the Union for Canadian Correctional […]
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide after she poisoned her veterinarian husband with animal euthanasia drugs. Fox 6 reports Amanda Chapin, 50, of Monroe, was charged Dec. 28 for allegedly poisoning her 70-year-old husband Gary Chapin by putting barbiturates in his coffee. Chapin attempted to poison her husband three times […]
