Joe Giudice and Teresa Giudice appeared at a courthouse in Newark, N.J., today to face sentencing in their fraud case.Teresa Giudice was sentenced to 15 months in prison, beginning Jan. 5, and $414,000 in restitution. She will also face two years of supervised released. Teresa Giudice's time behi...
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Bank of America has sole control over money transfers and e-messaging for 214,365 federal inmates-producing a $76.3 million windfall for the company. By Daniel Wagner at The Center for Public IntegrityEditor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series examining how financial companies impose ...
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Bronx native Ralphy Dominguez turns to pricey creations after 3-year prison stintHandmade alligator wallets made by Ralphy Dominguez.By Daniel Beekman - NY Daily News - July 24, 2014RALPHY Dominguez is stitching his life back together - one alligator-skin wallet at a time.The Bronx native, who re...
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The United States Sentencing Commission just voted to let 46,290 federal prisoners apply to get out of prison sooner. The vote applied the Sentencing Commission's latest reductions in federal sentencing guidelines,approved in April, to people currently serving sentences in federal prison for drug...
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July 18, 2014Today the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to retroactively apply an amendment approved earlier this year by the U.S. Sentencing Commission that lowers federal guidelines for sentencing persons convicted of drug trafficking offenses. The vote could shorten sentences for tens of thous...
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Actress Shannon Guess Richardson tried to poison President Obama and NYC Mayor BloombergJuly 16, 2014TEXARKANA, Texas - A Texas actress who sent ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and the New York mayor then tried to blame the crime on her soon-to-be ex-husband was sentenced to 18 y...
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The U.S. spent $454 Million dollars in 2013 on Gitmo’s detention centers. Get a better grasp on Gitmo–from the history of prison camps to the financial, political and human toll it takes. July 2, 2014 By INFOGRAPHICWORLD http://infographicworld.com/history-of-prison-camps/&#...
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A New York Times Expose Rikers Island is the second-largest jail in the United States. Of the 11,000 inmates there, about 4,000 have mental illnesses. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times After being arrested on a misdemeanor charge following a family dispute last y...
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Hurricane Katrina Fallout - Convicted of Bribery and Wire Fraud Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin leaves federal court after his conviction in New Orleans. Nagin's steep descent from the days when he was seen as a fresh-faced reformer continues this week when he is sentenced in federal court on ...