Mass. inmates asks for sex change
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A trial that opened more than a year ago has become bogged down in Boston federal court. There have been hundreds of hours of testimony from witnesses, including 10 medical specialists paid tens of thousands of dollars. The judge himself even hired an expert to help him make sense of it all.
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FOND DU LAC, Wis. - A former inmate told police that he was a werewolf and could change shapes after he was arrested for breaking into a woman's apartment.
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Officials in two states proposed unusual plans Monday to tighten oversight of convicted sex offenders: Virginia's attorney general wants them to register their e-mail addresses and online IDs, and New York officials want them to take lie-detector tests.
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Massachusetts ACLU officials are calling for an end to a "DNA dragnet" in which police in Truro are trying to track down a killer by doing voluntary genetic tests on male residents of the Cape Cod town.
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The mock prison cell, the barking dog belonging to another protester, people asking names and ages.
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By ERIC TUCKER  BOSTON - A warden's decision to ban a convicted killer from preaching to fellow inmates violates the prisoner's right to practice religion, his attorney told a federal appeals court Wednesday.
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A man is being held on false imprisonment and aggravated sodomy charges after a 17-year-old Massachusetts boy he met online text-messaged his family claiming he was being held against his will on the man's west Georgia farm, police said.
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The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday ordered the release of a man who was serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was two years older than she was.
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Inmates are reaching the end of their sentences but cannot be freed because they haven't attended treatment programmes.
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In New York City and beyond, an operation may no longer be necessary to officially change your gender. And that leads to all kind of quandaries about marriage and bathrooms. By Randy Dotinga.
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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New measures offering some persistent offenders an alternative to prison are  unveiled by Cathy Jamieson.
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Two jail inmates used photos of bikini-clad women to hide holes they used to escape and left behind a thank-you note, signed with a smiley face, for a guard they claimed helped them, officials said Monday.
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Oklahoma, Mississippi and the Mountain states have set the pace in increasing the imprisonment of women, while several Northeastern states are curtailing the practice, according to a new report detailing sharp regional differences in the handling of female offenders.
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A recent murder indicates a backlash by some against women as their rights and opportunities increase.
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Some gay activists want to track down those who engage in risky behavior and try to stop them before they can infect others.
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A Pakistani judge Monday sentenced a married couple to three years&#39; jail for lying after it emerged that the husband was a transsexual.