We have all heard the horror stories of the young, white, middle-class kid that goes to prison and gets turned out. This is a common theme in movies a ...
Once dubbed the Murder Capital of the world, Detroit has long been a Mafia hotbed and urban gangster Mecca. The underworld of the Motor City has long ...
Federal prisoners are now allowed one very personal item that had been traditionally checked at the door when they began serving hard time: music. Wit ...
In the chronicles of gangster lore and hip-hop legend some gun thugs, drug barons and crime bosses have stood the test of time and their mythologies h ...
More than 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated, 95 percent of whom will be released back to society. Hundreds of thousands are released every year a ...
I sat on the plane on my way to Victorville, a federal correctional complex in southern California. As I sat on the plane looking out the window, we f ...