Rapper JT of the City Girls, who spent 2 years behind bars for credit card fraud before being released in 2019, launched a new initiative named No Bars Reform in an effort to help other formerly incarcerated women reintegrate back into society. The nonprofit will assist in therapy, job placement, social service and housing. […]
This week, in an attempt to promote a renewed gang crackdown, the Honduran gov released photos of incarcerated men stripped down to their underwear with their hands on top of their heads, pressed together in formation as heavily armed soldiers stand guard. The Honduran authorities are trying to project an image of control after a […]
By Mike Enemigo When criminal defense attorney William Kroger visited his clients in California prisons, he noticed that just a few months behind bars seemed to whip many of them into shape. Because the state had removed all weightlifting equipment from its prisons over 20 years earlier, Kroger wondered: How were they getting those impressive […]
By Mike Enemigo A prisoner serving a life term as California State Prison and Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran published his confession to the brutal murder in January 2020 of two convicted child molesters with whom he was housed. Jonathan Watson, 41, sent a letter in February 2020 to the San Jose Mercury News, […]
By Mike Enemigo On May 21, 2019, a 143-page federal indictment was filed that described criminal violations allegedly committed by Ronald Yandell, Daniel Troxell, William Sylvester, Travis Burhop, Brant Daniel, Donald Mazza, Pat Brady, Jason Corbett, Matthew Hall, Samuel Keeton, Michael Torres, Jeanna Quesenberry, Kevin McNamara, Kristen Demar, Justin Petty and Kathleen Nolan. The indictment […]
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The prison experience meets social media. The popularity of YouTube prison channels that show viewers a slice…