DMX has been sentenced to six months in jail after failing to pay child support for his 12 children, Buffalo News Network WIVB reports. The…

A judge has denied Suge Knight’s request to dismiss his fatal hit-and-run case after the key witness refused to identify him, PEOPLE reports. Knight and his lawyer,…

Following his plan to rectify the “war on drugs” that jailed thousands and destroyed communities, President Obama is expected to commute the sentences of dozens…

Just weeks after a worker reportedly helped two inmates escape from an upstate New York prison, a similar case allegedly recently occurred in North Carolina.…

Arrested at 17, Carlos Montero has been in Riker’s Island for 7 years without being convicted http://t.co/aMP8eaWNs0 via @dailykos — JoeInWV (@wvjoe911) June 16, 2015…

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For the three years Kalief Browder sat in New York’s Rikers Island, he probably wondered what the difference would have been if his family could…

Unsanitary and dangerous conditions at the Baltimore City Detention center prompted civil rights lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union to file a motion Tuesday…

Reality star, Kenya Moore, seemed to be a little frustrated after finding out a couple of weeks ago that the guy she  was dating turned out to be married. Recently, Kenya Moore expressed that she does not believe that there are any black men available for black women because they are either gay, in jail, […]

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Two women have filed an explosive lawsuit against a Rikers Island corrections officer and the city of New York, charging that they were raped repeatedly…

A writer who worked with rap mogul Jay-z, back in 2010, reached out to him to post bail on protesters in Baltimore and Ferguson. Not only did Jay-z put up thousands of dollars but sources claim that Beyonce did as well. “When we needed money for bail for Baltimore protesters, I… hit Jay up, as […]

Kandi Burruss and Phaedra Parks are having some friendship problems because Phaedra does not feel that Kandi is as supportive as a a friend as she should be. More specifically she was referring to the time when Apollo went to jail and Kandi didn’t come around as much in which Kandi said she didn’t. The […]

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The rekindled relationship between the United States and Cuba has taken yet another step forward. On Tuesday, the White House announced that President Obama plans…