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He spent 14 years in prison for murder. Now, he's the first person in California to be exonerated with the help of genetic genealogy

Ricky Davis was wrongly convicted in the 1985 fatal stabbing of Jane Hylton in El Dorado Hills, California. February 13, 2020 A California man who spent 14 years in prison for the murder of a newspaper columnist has been exonerated thanks to the same DNA technology that caught...

InmateAid Now Offers Lowest Pricing For Prison Discount Phone Service In The Country

LAKE WORTH, FL / February 11, 2020 / South Florida based, InmateAID, has launched their new pricing, making them the lowest cost secondary phone call provider in the country. By bringing Federal Phone Lines down to $5.00 a month, InmateAID offers the best value in the...

Former Pimco C.E.O. Gets 9 Months in Prison in College Admissions Case

Douglas Hodge, the former chief executive of Pimco, center, left the federal courthouse in Boston last year.Credit...Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg Most parents were accused of crimes to get one child, maybe two, into an elite college. Douglas Hodge, the former chief of Pimco, paid...

Justice Department will investigate four Mississippi prisons after inmates describe dangerous conditions

The Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman is one of the facilities that will be investigated. By Nicole Chavez and Allison Flexner, CNN The Justice Department is launching an investigation into the conditions of several Mississippi prisons following a series of inmate...