Hip-hop artist Ja Rule turned himself to begin a two-year prison sentence Wednesday afternoon in New York.
As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) prepares to replace its disgraced former managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, e-mails obtained exclusively by CNN offer a unique insight into the mood among staff.
CNN's Nina dos Santos reports on the chatter inside the IMF following the resignation of its embattled director.
The wife of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said she is closing down her popular French blog.
The International Monetary Fund announced its search for a new managing director as its former chief, Dominique-Strauss-Kahn, is confined to a Lower Manhattan apartment following his release on bail from a Rikers Island jail.
For Dominique Strauss-Kahn, life inside an 11-foot by 13-foot Rikers Island cell, however temporary, was a major change. For years, Strauss-Kahn had enjoyed every bit of the upper-crust lifestyle, salary and perks that come with his job as managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
A former corrections official explains what it's like for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to live inside Rikers Island jail.
One hour of recreation a day. Veal patties and noodles for dinner. New York's well-known Rikers Island jail complex has been featured in films, television shows and documentaries, but life on the other side of the bars appears less than glamorous.
The head of the powerful International Monetary Fund arrived Monday at New York's Rikers Island jail complex, dispatched there after a judge denied him bail for allegedly chasing and sexually assaulting a hotel employee.
Black Friday was decidedly less dangerous at the Wal-Mart store on New York's Long Island where a worker was fatally trampled two years ago.
Fifteen corrections officers were injured Tuesday night after a scuffle with inmates at the Rikers Island correctional facility in the Bronx, according to a spokesman for the union that represents the officers.
He's going from eight months on Rikers Island to a party in Miami this weekend
Rapper Lil Wayne walked out of New York's Rikers Island jail Thursday and was set to fly to Miami for a welcome home party thrown by his record label, his publicist said.
Bryan "Birdman" Williams and Cortez Bryant talk about Lil Wayne's stint in prison.
Recently married Robert "Joe" Halderman was let out for good behavior
Michael Enright, the man suspected of stabbing a cabdriver in New York after learning he was a Muslim, has been moved from jail to a psychiatric ward, a city official said.
A cab driver attacked because he was Muslim? CNN's Deb Feyerick has more.
All the details on the rapper's new unglamorous digs at Riker's Island in N.Y.C.
The rapper, sentenced Monday after two previous delays, could be out in eight months
For 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, a simple Facebook status update turned into much more: a rock-solid alibi after he was accused of a crime.
"I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in," the rapper says after serving eight months for parole violation
Foxy Brown is back in the general prison population at New York's Rikers Island after serving 40 days in solitary confinement for violations that included shoving another inmate, according to reports.
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