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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was shipped to a federal prison in Oklahoma on Tuesday before being transferred to a permanent facility where he will serve the longest political corruption prison sentence ever handed down to someone. Kilpatrick is being temporarily housed at a federal transfer center in Oklahoma City. No word on where Kilpatrick […]

Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald’s whole life changed in June 2011 when he got into a bar fight in Minneapolis. The incident resulted in the death of Dean Schmitz, 47, and McDonald sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. Now she is free after serving 19 months in a Minnesota detention facility. 

  A Canadian teenager has been found guilty of distributing child pornography. The 16-year-old girl, who is  not identified because she is a minor, “sexted” pictures of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend to peers. The teen was also convicted of verbally threatening the girl.

A bill that would make it legal for Florida residents to show guns or fire warning shots in self-defense has passed the state’s Senate panel. The warning-shot bill SB 448, would amend the state’s controversial “stand your ground” defense, cleared its first Senate committee on Wednesday. 

A man who pleaded guilty to slapping a crying toddler on a Delta airline flight has been sentenced. Joe Rickey Hundley will serve 8 months in prison for his actions during the incident. 

A man who pleaded guilty slapping a crying toddler on a Delta airline flight is due in federal court today for sentencing. Joe Rickey Hundley, who is white, pleaded guilty in October after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors. 

23-year-old Travion Blount has spent 8 years behind bars for a bad decision he made at just 15. The young man is currently serving a sentence of 118 years, plus 6 consecutive life sentences for robbery in Norfolk with two older teenagers.

A Texas man who has paid his back child support debt in full has been sentenced to jail. Clifford Hall says when the amount of child support for his 11-year-old son was modified, no one told him. 

A former Milwaukee police officer who was found guilty of performing illegal strip and body cavity searches on dozens of black males suspected of drug possession was sentenced to 26 months in prison Friday. Michael Vagnini, 34, pleaded no contest in April to four felonies and four misdemeanors stemming from his actions. Sexual assault charges […]

Massachusetts’ highest court struck down life sentences without parole for juveniles on Tuesday saying the sentences were unconstitutional. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court’s decision came after the US Supreme Court stuck down a law imposing automatic sentences of life without parole for juveniles.

A 19-year-old man avoided the death penalty after posting threats online against a man who he eventually killed. 18-year-old Prentice Dietrich-Smith lost his life in June after Christopher Dowen, 19, wrote that he was going to “keep beating your ass over and over again” on Facebook. Dowen was found not guilty of murder and felonious […]

By Aaron Talley, BYP 100 Chicago One would think that it goes without saying that we should meet the complex problems of violence in Chicago with equally complex solutions. One would think, or rather one should think, that reducing violence requires creative, expansive, and thoughtful solutions. However, time proves again and again that lawmakers choose […]