‘Suge’ Knight Finishes Term in State Prison

Rap music figure Marion “Suge” Knight was released from Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., after serving 10 months for violating parole.

The founder of Death Row Records was arrested in June on charges that he punched a parking lot attendant outside a Hollywood nightclub. In August, a state parole panel deemed the incident a violation of Knight’s parole from an earlier assault conviction and ordered him to prison.

Knight, 38, has been imprisoned three times in eight years on assault-related charges. Once the most successful mogul in the rap business, Knight returns to face a crumbling music empire, a $6-million tax debt and a federal inquiry into his alleged involvement in the 1997 murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G.