A Black man has died in police custody at a Jackson, Mississippi jail. Jamal Mallard's family believes something happened while he was in police custody and are skeptical about his sudden death.

California governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation for a new law designed to guard people of color against racial profiling at the hands of police officers. This act by the state comes just a few days after the New York Police Department said they would begin tracking officers’ use of excessive force. The Racial and Identity Profiling […]

The Department of Justice is preparing to release about 6,000 nonviolent inmates from federal prison at the end of the month.

Crime

A New York City man who stole baby formula from a Pathmark supermarket last Thursday was charged with two counts of grand larceny

Marie Holmes stole our hearts when she won a $188 million Powerball jackpot. She reportedly used part of her jackpot to bail her fiancé

Crime

Child Protective Services previously sought to remove six children from a Texas home where they were killed by their mother's ex-boyfriend.

Nation

A Texas man who spent 35 years behind bars without a conviction will finally get a second chance at justice. Jerry Hartfield, 59, has been incarcerated even though an appeals court threw out his conviction for the 1976 murder of a woman who sold tickets at a Bay City bus station. Today, Hartfield will return […]

A 2009 incident with an Italian photographer has come back to haunt supermodel Naomi Campbell.

After being found dead in her jail cell bed on Sunday, a 37-year-old Cleveland native identified as Ralkina Jones became the third Black woman to die in police custody in the past two weeks. Jones, who was arrested after allegedly attacking her ex-husband at his place of work, was charged with felonious assault, criminal mischief, domestic […]

Curtis and Catherine Jones were 12 and 13 years old when they confessed to the brutal murder of their father’s girlfriend in 1999. Now the siblings, who spent their formative years behind bars, will be released to a world far different from what they once knew. Curtis and Catherine lived with their father in Brevard County, […]

The funeral for the woman who died in police custody two weeks ago, sparking speculation about police involvement in her death, will be buried Saturday morning in Lisle, Ill. About 1,000 mourners, friends and family members of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old Chicago native, will gather for a wake at 9 a.m., ABC 7 reports. The […]

Nation

In the week since Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell, just three days after she was pulled over and arrested for failure to signal, it has been revealed that the 28-year-old once attempted suicide, and battled bouts of depression. Details from her autopsy, released Thursday, confirm that the cause of death was suicide by […]