Tag: Behind Bars

CELEBRITY CRIME: Suge Knight Has Phone and Visitation Revoked In Jail

  
According to the NY Daily News, Suge Knight has been hit with some very deflating news while he sits in prison awaiting trail for the killing a man with his truck in 2015.

Jailed rap mogul Suge Knight has been stripped of family visitation and phone calls in a surprise move his fiancée called “unfair.”
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge halted Knight’s access to his parents, children and spiritual advisers in a decision handed down under seal.

The change was requested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as Knight remains locked up on charges he ran over two men with his truck — killing one of them — outside a burger restaurant in Compton in January 2015.

Suge’s fiancé, Toi-Lin is not happy about his phone & visitation being revoked and thinks the whole thing is unfair. 

“It’s absolutely not fair,” his fiancée Toi-Lin Kelly told the Daily News. “His rights were taken away with no explanation.”

She said the couple’s 6-year-old son was allowed to visit Knight in jail shortly before Thanksgiving but now must stay away.

“Suge was so prevalent in life. He used to take him to school and play with him before studio time. Now it’s nothing. They can’t even have a phone call,” she said.

$3M In Meth Found In Religious Picture Frames During Texas Traffic Stop 

  

Via The Associated Press– A Texas Panhandle traffic stop has yielded $3 million worth of methamphetamine hidden in the frames of religious-themed pictures.

Two people were arrested during the stop near Conway while bound for Georgia.

On Tuesday morning  a car was pulled over for a traffic violation on Interstate 40, east of Amarillo.

A car search turned up 27 bundles of methamphetamine, about 35 pounds, inside the structure of several picture frames portraying images of religious figures.

The driver and the passenger, both from Tijuana, Mexico, face felony charges of possession of a controlled substance.

The police believe the meth was being taken from Mexico to Atlanta.

President Obama Bans Solitary Confinement For Juveniles & Low Level Offenders 

  

WASHINGTON — President Obama is moving to ban solitary confinement for juveniles and low-level offenders in federal prisons, a change long sought by advocates of prison reform who argue the punishment exacts a devastating and permanent mental toll.Obama was influenced by a U.S. 

Department of Justice review that determined the practice reduces the chances that prisoners can be acclimated back into society, he said in a Washington Post op-ed piece.

Obama stated that solitary confinement has been “increasingly overused … with heartbreaking results,” and subsequently ordering federal penitentiaries to cease using the punishment on juvenile offenders in the federal prisons and on prisoners who committed non-serious offenses.

He went on to say that it may be necessary in case of violent or misbehaving prisoners, but otherswise “be limited, applied with constraints and used only as a measure of last resort.”

The White House said Obama was also adopting Justice Department recommendations that would limit solitary confinement for prisoners with mental illness and avoid using the practice as a tool to segregate prisoners who face threats from fellow inmates. He wrote in the Post that the move would affect 10,000 federal prisoners.

“The United States is a nation of second chances, but the experience of solitary confinement too often undercuts that second chance,” 

Obama wrote in the Post op-ed. 

“Those who do make it out often have trouble holding down jobs, reuniting with family and becoming productive members of society. Imagine having served your time and then being unable to hand change over to a customer or look your wife in the eye or hug your children. 
How can we subject prisoners to unnecessary solitary confinement, knowing its effects, and then expect them to return to our communities as whole people? It doesn’t make us safer. It’s an affront to our common humanity.” 

In his final year in office, Obama has said that he’d redouble his efforts on criminal justice reform, including improving conditions in federal prisons and encouraging states to adopt new rules that hew more closely to updated research on corrections facilities. In July he became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, and he has spoken candidly about issues like prison rape and criminal re-entry programs.

The goal, officials have said, is to improve the chances that incarcerated Americans become functioning members of society after serving their sentences.