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By Walter Pavlo - Forbes June 28, 2023 Our political leaders banter back and forth about incarcerating members of the opposite party. In fact, phrases like “toss them in prison” or “lock’em up” have been so misused that we forget the responsibility that comes with taking peo...

Casanova attends the BET Hip Hop Awards 2019 at Cobb Energy Center on October 05, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. By Marc Griffin - VIBE via Yahoo News Wed, June 28, 2023   Casanova has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for racketeering and nar...

By Walter Pavlo - Forbes June 23, 2023 The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has faced many challenges in implementing the 2018 law called the First Step Act. While the law allowed minimum and low-security prisoners an opportunity to earn credits toward reducing their sentence...

Future graduate Evan Holmes wipes his eyes after delivering a speech at the first-ever college graduation ceremony at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, Friday, June 9, 2023, in Suffield, Conn. The ceremony was held under a partnership established in 2021 by the University of...

Rapper Fetty Wap at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards in New Jersey. - Caitlin Ochs/Reuters By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN May 25, 2023 A federal court in Central Islip, New York sentenced William Junior Maxwell II, also known as rapper Fetty Wap, to six years’...

Inmate/students practice blues harmonica during a classroom session of the Blues Tradition in American Literature course inside Parchman Prison in Mississippi. John Burnett May 13, 2023 By John Burnett - NPR PARCHMAN, Miss. — Nine big men sit attentive...

May 4, 2023 By Lilly Quiroz - NPR When incarcerated people leave prison, are they actually free? Turns out, the singer/songwriter John Legend is one of 113 million American adults who has had a family member incarcerated. He tells his family's story in this 30-min...

April 28, 2023 By Tilda Wilson - NPR Every month, Renee Hoolan sends her son, Bailey Sanders, $75. He's been incarcerated for the last 6 years, so he uses that money for things like over-the-counter medications, shoes for his job or minutes on the phone. Hoolan said it's har...

Fraudster set to start her jail term on Thursday despite desperate bids to avoid it Her family begged a judge not to separate Holmes, 38, from her young children  She is expected to end up at a federal female prison offering 'parenting classes'  By MILES DILWOR...