Bold Escape Not First Try for Inmate
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The prosecutor admitted that Otis Blunt had tried to flee his Union County jail cell before in the same way.
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The path to the nation's busiest death chamber winds through a court of last resort where the presiding judge recently refused to keep her office open past 5 p.m. to accept an last-minute appeal from an inmate about to be executed.
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As many as 30 inmates escaped through a small hole in a prison wall in the latest of several breakouts from Haiti's largest penitentiary, police said Tuesday.
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A Belgian inmate made a dramatic escape from jail for the fourth time on Sunday evening after his armed accomplices landed in the prison grounds in a hijacked helicopter, prosecutors said on Monday.
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An armed robber who escaped from a prison van helped by two masked men is still at large, say police.
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SANFORD, Fla. - A convicted felon was mistakenly released from state prison after serving only about half of his sentence on drugs and weapons charges. He was free 16 days before corrections officials realized their error and put him back behind bars.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit. Transformation happens through an instantaneous miracle; it then builds the prisoner up with familiarity of the Bible."...
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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DURANT, Okla. - Inmate meals at the Bryan County Jail aren't what they used to be after authorities discovered an inmate chef with a gourmet palate spent more than twice as much on groceries as was budgeted.
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Governors told to move as many inmates as possible to open jails in response to prison overcrowding
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The second of two men who last month pulled off a daring escape from a county jail in New Jersey was taken into custody Wednesday, authorities told CNN.
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One precaution TV icon Martha Stewart must take when serving her sentence at the Alderson, West Virginia, prison is refrain from doing any business.
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors.
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A slaying suspect escaped from a county jail by assuming the identity of another inmate and was on the loose for more than six hours before authorities realized he was gone, officials said. He was still at large Monday morning.
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By Patrick Malone, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--A Pueblo bail bondsman was sentenced to probation for trying to make it look like a sheriff's deputy had accepted a bribe.   Homer Lamar Blackwell Jr., 61, of Blackwell's Bail Bonds, pleaded guilty Jan.
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A man who escaped jail in a helicopter in 2001 and organised a similar breakout in 2003, uses the method to flee again.
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More than 100 prisoners escaped from a state penitentiary early Friday after hundreds of inmates overpowered guards with knives and bats. Police quickly recaptured most of the men.