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Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. -- son of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson -- was sent to solitary confinement earlier this year for helping other inmates understand and assert their rights, then transferred to a different prison. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Jackson was segregated from the inmate population for four to five days after a guard took exception to his advisement of other prisoners of their rights.

Jesse Jackson Jr. -- former congressman and son of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson -- was sentenced to 30 months behind bars on Wednesday for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his own campaign fund and using that money to fund a lavish, high-flying lifestyle. According to the Washington Post, the "once-promising" Illinois politician said in court that he "could not have been more wrong" in his decision to put campaign funds to personal use.