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Seattle woman awarded $975K in civil suit after giving birth in jail

By theGrio

1:51 PM on 02/06/2012

SEATTLE (AP) - A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state...
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Inmates over the age of 55 more than doubled since 1995

By theGrio

12:07 PM on 01/27/2012

NEW YORK (AP) - The latest available figures from 2010 show that 8 percent of the prison population -- 124,400 inmates -- was 55 or older, compared to 3 percent in 1995, according to a report being released Friday by Human Rights Watch...
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'American Gangster' Frank Lucas faces jail for allegedly bilking feds of 17G

By theGrio

3:16 PM on 12/13/2011

New York Daily News - Frank Lucas, who once ran a billion-dollar business smuggling heroin before going straight, could go to jail for bilking the U.S. government out of $17,300...
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Ben Wallace gets probation for DUI, gun charges

By theGrio

10:09 AM on 12/13/2011

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Shalina Kumar also sentenced Wallace to 30 hours of community service...
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Prosecutors seek 15 months in Barry Bonds case

By theGrio

9:09 AM on 12/09/2011

San Francisco- Bonds, 47, was convicted in April of obstructing a grand jury's sports doping investigation with an evasive answer...
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Black men make up 40 percent of England's youth jail popuation

By theGrio

2:13 PM on 10/27/2011

Young black men now account for nearly 40% of the population of youth jails in England and Wales, according to a report by the chief inspector of prisons...
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More black men in prison than slaves in 1850?

By theGrio

3:50 PM on 10/11/2011

It's a heartbreaking, but often understated, reality that America's criminal justice system imprisons black folks at astonishingly high rates.
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Elderly man who shot 12-year-old freed from jail

By theGrio

5:43 PM on 08/25/2011

MIAMI - James McIvery has been in jail for nearly three weeks after the Aug. 7 shooting incident, which landed the pre-teen in the hospital after the bullet got lodged in the boy's stomach...
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Video shows baby riding in bed of pickup truck

By theGrio

4:43 PM on 08/18/2011

MIAMI - Keyona Davis, 23, was arrested Wednesday and charged with child neglect after a Daytona Beach police officer spotted the woman with the 8-month old boy...
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Jalen Rose gets 20 days in jail for drunk driving

By theGrio

12:12 PM on 07/27/2011

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan judge has sentenced former NBA guard Jalen Rose to serve 20 days in jail for a drunken driving crash in March...
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Couple charged with starving their 6-month-old child

By Jaquen Castellanos

2:08 PM on 07/15/2011

VIDEO - The 6-month-old child of Stephanie McCarley and Devin Jay Davis weighed only nine pounds at the time of his death this past April...
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Mom finally free after paid parking ticket lands her in jail

By Ollie Montgomery

9:16 AM on 07/08/2011

Philadelphia's Shanea Clark is finally free after a mistake by the police department over a $15 parking ticket put her in jail...
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Harlem teen charged in gang case surrenders

By theGrio

1:29 PM on 06/30/2011

Afrika Owes will plead guilty on felony charges of conspiracy and weapons possession as part of a plea deal after being arrested on her involvement in gang activity...
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Escaped inmate remains elusive in southern Texas

By Ollie Montgomery

12:24 PM on 06/29/2011

HUNTSVILLE - Trent De'Ray Archie, 29, remains on the loose for the second day after escaping the Walker County Jail in Huntsville, Texas. He may be armed and police need your help...
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Woman jailed after violent stiletto attack

By Ollie Montgomery

5:30 PM on 06/21/2011

VIDEO - Heather Sims will serve 18 months in jail after attacking a man with a stiletto outside of a McDonald's drive-thru...
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Woman steals child's identity to recieve food stamps

By Ollie Montgomery

2:17 PM on 06/15/2011

GREENSBORO - JoAnne Foster received $2,628 in food stamps from the Alamance County Department of Social Services through identity theft...
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Daughter of Malcolm X held on $100K bail in NYC

By theGrio

8:17 AM on 03/03/2011

NEW YORK (AP) - A daughter of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X has been extradited to New York City to face charges of identity theft and grand larceny...
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Barry Bonds' trainer picks jail over stand, again

By theGrio

8:34 AM on 03/02/2011

(AP) - Everybody needs a friend like Greg Anderson, especially if you happen to be a retired home run king suspected of doping and charged with lying to a grand jury about it...
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Malcolm X daughter held on warrants in North Carolina

By theGrio

10:37 AM on 02/22/2011

MARS HILL, North Carolina (AP) - The daughter of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X face charges on several outstanding warrants, authorities said Monday...
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College student makes 'jailbreaking' a business

By theGrio

2:55 PM on 01/12/2011

VIDEO - Used iPhones are going for big bucks on websites like Craigslist and eBay. The reason? People are "jailbreaking" these phones...
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