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Young Thug has been hit with a new lawsuit as he still sits behind bars. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that due to Thugger’s incarceration, he was unable to perform at an Atlanta concert that was set up in January of this year. He was arrested in May and is now being sued for $150,000 in damages and attorneys’ […]
A former Manhattan neurologist who was convicted last month of sexually assaulting multiple patients was found dead at Rikers Island on Monday, CNN reports. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani, who was the former chairman of the neurology department at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, was found around 5:35 a.m. in the shower area of the New York City jail facility with […]
A group of corrections officers have been awarded almost $1.5 million when they were prohibited from protecting Derek Chauvin in May 2020 because they weren’t white. ABC News reports that the eight officers claimed that they were being racially discriminated against when Steve Lydon, former Superintendent of the Ramsey County Adult Detention Center, disallowed any corrections […]
Guy Reffitt was sentenced on Monday to just over seven years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, NBC News reports. Reffitt was found guilty in March on all five charges, including transport of a firearm in support of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. He was the first person […]
Donald Trump supporter Mark Ponder has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for assaulting police at the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. As NBC News reports, Ponder was given a 63 month sentence in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday, tying him for the longest sentencing connected to the Capitol […]
A New Jersey woman has been sentenced in connection with a GoFundMe scam that raised $400,000 by creating a fake story about a homeless veteran. According to the Burlington County Sheriff’s Office, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced Katelyn McClure, 32, of Bordentown, to one year and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. McClure […]
Britain’s most notorious prisoner, Charles Bronson, has begged for freedom after spending more than 40 years behind bars. In a bizarre voice message sent to Sky News, Bronson, now aged 70, said: “I bet you can’t believe I’m still in, can you? It’s an absolute liberty. I’ve never murdered anyone; I’ve never raped anyone. What am I in jail for? […]
Casey White, the inmate who escaped an Alabama prison in late April, has been charged with murder for his alleged role in the death of the former corrections officer who helped him flee. White was serving time at Lauderdale County Detention Center for a slew of charges, including attempted murder, carjacking, and home invasion, and awaiting trial on two […]
Jerry Harris, the disgraced former star of the Netflix docu-series Cheer, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sex crimes against minors. NBC News reports the 22-year-old received the sentencing Wednesday, nearly five months after pleading guilty to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. […]
One of the men named in the Fetty Wap federal drug case accepted a guilty plea that will see him face between five years to life in prison. New Jersey corrections officer Anthony Cyntje, one of the seven individuals named in the drug case, filed his plea deal on June 30, 2022. The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to […]
