The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in the world, and Louisiana locks up more people than any other state in the country.
It’s September, which means the nation is starting to go football crazy. Ohio woman Janine Fulton recently took football insanity to a new level when she filled a couple official size Wilson balls with pills, marijuana, cigarettes, cell phones, and cell phone chargers and tried to toss them into the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield, OH.
Much of Acadiana remains on stand-by as we await the confirmation from Lafayette Police on a body that was located yesterday in Evangeline Parish. Paul Mouton, of Lafayette Police, says they are confident in their findings yesterday and that they believe Mickey Shunick has been brought home. Since then, the million dollar question is...Who brought authorities to the grave site in Evangeline Parish
We thought that we saw it all when we discovered the two Lafayette Parish Prison inmates who were somehow allegedly updating their Facebook pages from INSIDE the jail - that is until we saw the reactions to the story. Some of you had us in TEARS with your comments via Facebook, so we decided to pull the best 20 and deliver them to you, before this either went away, or got too out of hand.
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Facebook is addictive. So addictive, that according to KATC's Erin Steuber, two Lafayette Parish inmates have been secretly active on the social media site for close to a month, undetected - until now. Most of the time, I'm hesitant to buy into zany stories like these, but when I saw one of the inmate's default photos from INSIDE the jail (above), I was a believer.
Life must really be bad on the outside if this woman was trying to break into jail. I've never really been inside a jail or prison before, but if everything I hear is true then I know its pretty small and they don't let you put pictures on the wall. Do you think she left a thanksgiving day turkey inside?
Not one. Not two. But three. That’s how many consecutive life sentences William Balfour, the man who was convicted of murdering three members of Jennifer Hudson‘s family in Chicago back in 2008, will serve.
Lenny Dykstra’s unlikely journey from all-star centerfielder to supposed financial wizard and businessman has landed the 49-year-old in jail.
Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal on Wednesday (Dec. 28) upheld a murder conviction and life sentence for former No Limit Records artist C-Murder (real name Corey Miller), reports nola.com. The decision stems from Mr. Miller’s argument that he was denied a fair trial in his 2002 murder case.
Looking ragged and ornery, eight Amish men were booked into the Graves County, Kentucky jail earlier this week for contempt of court after they refused to pay fines releated to not affixing orange safety triangles to their horse and buggies.
New legislation in Arizona allows the state’s Department of Corrections to impose a one-time “background check fee” of $25 on adults wishing to visit inmates at any of its 15 facilities.
Needless to say, families and prisoner advocacy groups are not happy, citing the existing costs of traveling to visit loved ones housed in prisons that are often located in remote areas.
In a somewhat strange turn of events, T.I. is back in federal custody. Why?? Well, when he was released from prison yesterday, he took a tour bus instead of a van! Law enforcement officials tell TMZ, that when an inmate is in a low to medium security prison, they need to use a private, unescorted mode of transportation when traveling to a halfway house...
Wesley Snipes may be a badass on screen, but when you willfully refuse to file your taxes, the end result is usually jail. Mr. Snipes was scheduled to start a 3 yr prison sentence in Pennsylvania tomorrow but he may have gotten off the hook thanks to Larry King.
Lil Wayne was released from the Rikers Island prison facility after serving eight months of a year-long sentence for attempted gun possession. Though a guard told MTV News early Thursday morning that he had to wait another day due to "miscalculated" time, at 8:35 a...
Lil Wayne is expected to be released from prison Thursday following his completion of a prison sentence for attempted gun possession in New York. The superstar MC has been on Rikers Island since early March.
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T.I. turned himself over to authorities once again on Monday (November 1), as the Atlanta rapper is set to begin his second stint in prison in less than a year.
Hopefully this time, he will be able to keep himself on the good path...