CLEVELAND — The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor confirms that Kenneth Booker, of East Cleveland, pleaded guilty today to killing his wife and will spend 19 years in prison. Police and EMS were called to a Euclid Avenue apartment on Jan. 21 around 4:30 p.m. There they discovered the body of Carolyn Booker, 59. She had […]
DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The arrest of 43 members of the Heartless Felons Gang is just the start of a crackdown on violence at the Juvenile Detention Center according to the County Prosecutors Office. On June 10, prosecutors submitted a 437-count complaint, the Juvenile Court equivalent of an indictment, against the gang members. […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Two corrupt former officials of the Richmond Heights Local School District were sentenced to prison Thursday. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold sentenced Dr. Robert J. Moore, 52, the former district’s former Superintendent of Schools, to 12 months in prison. On April 30, Moore entered a plea […]
Jesse Jackson Sr., called in and talked about the mental state of his incarcerated son, Jesse Jackson, Jr. The former Congressman entered federal prison in North…
Jonathan Fleming was arrested in 1989 and convicted of murder in an NYC shooting, even though he was in Florida at the time of the…
*Now we know why Chris Brown was dismissed from the Malibu rehab facility last Friday. He had spent the last several months there for his anger issues. In any event, he’s no longer there because he violated 3 internal rules … including a special rule imposed specifically on him: stay at least 2 FEET away from […]
Blacks make up the majority of the nation’s population of those serving time in different prisons, whose budgets in several state have seen dramatic decreases. A lot has happened in the four years since the publication of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, a landmark book that showed how the “war on drugs” […]
After the Civil War ended, the prison system in the former Confederate states was under pressure to figure out how to house convicts. Most of…
HUDSON, OH (WOIO) – A Hudson pastor freed last week from a Philippines jail was back at his northeast Ohio church Sunday. Rev. Tom Randall spoke to the congregation at Christ Community Chapel, sharing his experience in the Philippines; including 22 days imprisoned. Rev. Randall was accused in a human trafficking case when a […]
Pastor Tom Randall of Christ Community Chapel in Hudson is now a free man. The pastor had been jailed in the Philippines for 22 days, accused in a human trafficking case. According to a Facebook message posted by fellow clergyman, Rev. Joe Coffey, Pastor Randall is free and all charges have been dropped. […]
IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A man convicted in four murders two decades ago is at large after he escaped from a Michigan prison and abducted…