11 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Incarcerated

10) 50 Cent

Following his ascent to de facto leadership of the East Coast rap group G-Unit, 50 Cent (born Curtis James Jackson III) rose to become one of the most influential men in the music industry. Prior to finding mainstream success, Jackson sold crack cocaine, a practice he’d begun at the age of 12. At 19, Jackson would be arrested for attempting to sell cocaine to an undercover police officer, carrying a possible sentence of 3-9 years in prison. Jackson was able to have his sentence reduced to a 6 month stint in a correctional boot camp in New York where he was able to obtain his GED.