Kiefer Starts 48 Days in Stir for Drunk Rap

Sixty-day sentence makes him first of publicly traded firm

(USER SUBMITTED) - First he drank. Then he drove. Then he was thrown in jail. Finally, Louis Lower, the 65-year-old CEO of Horace Mann Educators Corp., a publicly traded insurance company, decided to tell his board of directors that he would be unavailable for 60 days while he served his sentence in a Florida county jail. And in doing so, Lower became the first CEO of a publicly traded company to be running it from behind bars. More»

(AP) - Former NBA star Charles Barkley was released from jail this morning after serving a three-day sentence in Phoenix on a drunken-driving conviction. He began his sentence Saturday morning, and spent about 36 hours in jail after getting 12 hours of work release yesterday and today. He was housed in a separate tent from the other inmates for his safety, and meals were brought to him. More»

Jan Adams had 2 previous arrests, gets a year in the clink

(NEWSER) - Jan Adams, the plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s mother before she died, has been jailed for a year in his third DUI, E! Online reports. The doc pleaded no contest after last June’s incident, in which he was caught driving his Jaguar the wrong way on a California highway with a blood alcohol level of .20. Donda West died November 2007 of a combination of a heart condition and complications from surgery. More»

Star spent 48 days in big house without smoking

(NEWSER) - Not surprisingly, Kiefer Sutherland didn’t find prison a pleasant experience. “There’s no smoking,” the actor tells Vogue. Though he made it 48 days without cigarettes, the 24 star still hasn’t quit. Sutherland, 41, went on to complain about the lack of privacy, made worse by the fact that he had to share a cell, People reports. More»

Profiles, photos can haunt defendants, help prosecutors

(AP) - Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants. Now the sites are proving fruitful for prosecutors, who have used damaging Internet photos of defendants to cast doubt on their character during sentencing hearings and argue for harsher punishment, reports the AP. In one Rhode Island case, Facebook photos helped lead to a 2-year prison sentence. More»