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Their choosing jail over a fine or bail marked a first in the Civil Rights Movement since the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, and it sparked the "jail, no bail" strategy that came to be emulated in other places. A growing number of people [8] participated in the sit-ins and marches that continued in Rock Hill through the spring [9] and into the summer ...
When Miller was released from prison in the spring of 1989, he began to rebuild the Supreme Team and regained control of two of its most lucrative retail locations known as "spots." The reorganized gang under Miller included Arroyo as the second-in-command, Hunt as Miller's bodyguard, Ernesto Piniella as head of security, and Hale, Jimenez, and ...
People who were wrongfully accused are sometimes never released. By August 2024, a total of 3,582 exonerations were mentioned in the National Registry of Exonerations. The total time these exonerated people spent in prison adds up to 31,900 years. Detailed data from 1989 regarding every known exoneration in the United States is listed.
Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...
Hank Williams. One of the most famous incarcerations in country music history occurred on August 17, 1952. Hank Williams was arrested for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct in Alexander ...
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.
A man whose conviction for a 1994 murder was overturned on new DNA evidence says he’s having a hard time adjusting to today’s hyper-connected world after spending the past 30 years behind bars
Anthony J. Pellicano (born March 22, 1944) is a high-profile Los Angeles private investigator and convicted criminal known as a Hollywood fixer. [1] He served a term of thirty months in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, firearms, and a grenade.