She faced up to 17 years in prison for her crimes, but was sentenced in June to a mandatory 90 days in the parish jail, a five-year suspended sentence, and five years of probation.
The U.S. Sun reports former DeRidder Mayor Misty Roberts is free after 90 days in custody, despite prosecutors initially seeking 17 years. Roberts, 44, walked free Monday after serving the full custodial term, the newspaper reported. She had been found guilty in March of statutory rape and indecent behavior with a minor. The case involved […] The post U.S. Sun: Former Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts released after 90-day term appeared first on American Almanac .
The U.S. Sun reports former DeRidder Mayor Misty Roberts is free after 90 days in custody, despite prosecutors initially seeking 17 years. Roberts, 44, walked free Monday after serving the full custodial term, the newspaper reported. She had been found guilty in March of statutory rape and indecent behavior with a minor. The case involved a 16-year-old friend of Roberts’s son. Prosecutors sought 17 years behind bars, but the judge imposed 90 days in custody and two suspended five-year sentences. The sentence also requires therapy, regular drug and alcohol testing, and registration as a Tier 1 sex offender. Roberts must avoid the teenager and his family. The Sun said the conduct occurred during a 2024 pool party. Roberts supplied…Open
- Julie Chrisley traces her journey from a small-town South Carolina upbringing and plans for pharmacy school to marriage, motherhood and a decade of reality television with the Chrisley family. - She discusses surviving breast cancer and the extraordinarily difficult year of 2012, when her diagnosis, a family death and the business dispute that ultimately leads to the federal case all collide. - Chrisley recounts the investigation, trial and guilty verdict from her perspective, followed by a seven-year sentence and her January 2023 surrender to federal prison. - She describes spending 28 months separated from Todd, living in an aging Kentucky prison facility, working in the commissary and kitchen and forming lasting friendships with other…
The investigation appears focused on whether officials are adequately supervising children in and out of school, with scrutiny on attendance and social worker visits.
Actress, activist and media personality La La Anthony joins Clock It live from Atlanta to share a powerful conversation she had with young people on Rikers Island about music, peer pressure and trying to live up to what they see around them. She explains how one simple question helped them see the difference between the lifestyle they were trying to emulate and the consequences they were facing. Click the related video to watch the full conversation on a new episode of Clock It.
This week on “Clock It,” actress, activist and media personality La La Anthony joins Symone and Eugene live from Atlanta to discuss La La’s ThreeSixty program, which is dedicated to mentoring and supporting young men incarcerated on New York City's Rikers Island. During the conversation, the three discuss how one wrong decision can alter the course of a young person’s life, especially in Black communities. “It's decisions that are made out of impulse or trying to be cool or hanging with a certain crowd...These aren't bad kids that just wake up like, ‘I just want to do bad today’,” La La says. Visit ms.now/clockit to watch the full episodes of Clock It.
For a special live taping of Clock It, Symone and Eugene traveled down to the ATL to kiki in front a standing-room-only crowd of journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention. They enraptured the attendees talking about the role White House reporters should play. And they got into Trump ditching Air Force One – and all of the members of the media and the administration still on it – to jump on a decoy plane. As a special treat the hosts welcomed actress, activist, and media personality La La Anthony to the stage. The trio dove into La La’s ThreeSixty program, which is dedicated to mentoring and supporting young men incarcerated on New York City's Rikers Island. “These aren't bad kids that just wake…
A Justice Department report released on Thursday found that inmates at two state-run women’s prisons routinely had their rights violated. State officials say they have already put reforms in place.
AI:The Department of Justice has unleashed a scathing indictment of California's correctional system, revealing that state officials systematically ignored rampant sexual abuse within two women's prisons. This catastrophic failure highlights a disturbing pattern of institutional negligence where the fundamental rights and physical safety of female inmates were sacrificed at the altar of bureaucratic indifference. While California officials offer hollow promises of "reforms" to mitigate the fallout, this revelation underscores a terrifying reality: the state’s management of its facilities is utterly broken. When combined with previous admissions regarding the infiltration of biological males into women's prisons through identity manipulation…Open
Investigators uncovered a longstanding pattern of sustained staff sexual misconduct, inadequate safeguards, failures in confidential reporting, improper investigative practices, and insufficient accountability measures, the department said.
AI:The Department of Justice has launched a devastating indictment against California's correctional system, uncovering a sickening, long-standing pattern of sexual misconduct by prison staff against female inmates. This isn't just an isolated oversight; investigators found systemic failures in confidential reporting and a complete lack of accountability that allowed predatory behavior to flourish behind bars. Following recent revelations regarding the infiltration of biological males into these same facilities and the state’s history of ignoring inmate safety, it is clear that California has abandoned all pretense of maintaining law and order within its prisons. While Sacramento officials attempt to deflect from this grotesque breakdown of…Open