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Inmate had five kids with four prison guards while incarcerated; 13 guards indicted
Category: National Written by Associated Press

TAVON WHITE
by Alex Dominguez
BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that 13 female corrections officers, seven inmates and five others with gang ties have been charged with plotting to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband into Baltimore's jail and other correctional facilities.
Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2013 20:14
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New sentencing for Ark. inmate given life as teen
Category: National Written by Associated Press

NEW SENTENCE--This photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections shows Kuntrell Jackson who was sentenced to life in prison when he was 14 after the shooting death of a store clerk during an attempted robbery in 1999. (AP Photo/Arkansas Department of Corrections)
by Jeanne Nuss
Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was 14 years old deserves a new sentencing hearing, Arkansas' highest court ruled Thursday.
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:03
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Tattoo parenting, Obama-style
Category: National Written by CNN

FIRST PARENTS--President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk from the White House with their daughters Sasha Obama, second from left, and Malia Obama, right, on their way through Lafayette Park to St. John's Episcopal Church for Easter services, Sunday, March 31, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
(CNN) -- President Barack Obama says he and the first lady have a good strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:10
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This Week In Black History
Category: National Written by Courier Newsroom

ELLA FITZGERALD
For the week of April 24-30
April 24
1867—The first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan is held at the Maxwell House in Nashville, Tenn. The White supremacist organization and its various offshoots would go on to launch a wave of terror, which would result in death and injury to thousands of African-Americans over the years. The Klan would remain the nation’s most powerful anti-Black terrorist organization for the next 70 years. The first chapter, however, was actually formed a year earlier in Pulaski, Tenn. Most of the early Klan members were former soldiers of the defeated Confederate Army from the Civil War. The group’s initial aim was to spread fear among Blacks and prevent them from voting. But as the organization grew, it expanded into anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner activities. The first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forest.
1944—The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. Over the years, the fundraising activities of the UNCF would result in thousands of college educations for African-Americans.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 11:49
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NY to seek release of sealed Attica riot documents
Category: National Written by Associated Press

FAMOUS PRISON - In a Dec. 20, 2006, photo is Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, N.Y. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials say they'll ask a state court to unseal documents containing details about the bloody retaking of Attica state prison after a riot by inmates more than 40 years ago.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he'll seek a court order making public previously secret parts of a 1975 state report that examined New York's efforts to investigate the riot and its aftermath. Thirty-two inmates and 11 civilian employees died after prisoners took over the maximum-security facility in September 1971, most of them when state troopers stormed the prison.
The documents include grand jury testimony ordered sealed in 1975.
Among those seeking release of the records are members of a group of prison employees who survived the riot and relatives of those who died.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:57
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