Back From Behind Bars
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Few people understand the criminal justice system like Wendell Poole. He spent 21 years, four months, 16 days and three hours in prison for assault with the intent to kill two people during an argument. He arrived home middle-aged and paranoid, flinching at the sound of passing cars. He needed a...
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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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A man jailed for plotting synchronised attacks in Britain and the United States returned Saturday to his cell after hospital treatment for severe injuries suffered in prison, police sources said.
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Burma&#39;s military government appears to have resumed its promised release of prisoners after a delay of several days. Journalists in Rangoon Thursday said they saw inmates being freed from the country&#39;s largest jail, Insein prison.
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A murderer who absconded from an open prison and was then recaptured is found hanging in a cell.
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When undertrial prisoner Boka Thakur was released from Bihar's Madhubani Jail in 1987, it was no ordinary incident for it implied the end of 42 years of incarceration without conviction for the man.
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Comments Four Britons detained in Somalia on terrorism charges have been been returned to the UK today, but could be back on the streets within hours.Comment
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CHINO, California  - A landlocked California men's prison aims to keep inmates from returning to jail by putting them in deep water -- training them for undersea construction and dam repair.
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By Karen Owen, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Jun. 24--Local churches are being recruited by a faith-based program to befriend ex-convicts and help them stay out of jail or prison.   Fresh Start for Life Inc.
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Two convicted murders escaped from prison Monday by climbing ladders and hoisting themselves over two fences, authorities said. One was quickly captured and the other remained at large.
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Police in Manchester launch a hunt for a man who was released from prison by mistake.
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Sen. Sam Brownback took his budding presidential campaign to prison this weekend, spent a restless night among inmates and pressed his message that faith can work even to improve the lives of hardened criminals.
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A convicted sex offender who absconded from a Lincolnshire open prison is recaptured by police.
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A convicted murderer goes missing after failing to return to prison following a work placement in the city.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (BBC News) - A Belgian convict who has escaped prison on three prior occasions was recaptured in the neighbouring Netherlands Tuesday. He had escaped from Ittre prison on Sunday in a daring breakout involving several accomplices, a getaway car, a helicopter and considerable confusion on the part of officials. Nordin Benallal was recaptured in The Hague on Tuesday, after being cornered in a motorcycle showroom. His brief flirt with freedom came after his fourth escape from prison. Dutch police said that Benallal and another man had been arrested after police fired warning shots. He is expected to be returned to Belgian custody on Wenesday.
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After 48 days behind bars, Kiefer Sutherland was released from incarceration Monday morning at a Glendale, Calif. jail.  The actor left at 12:05 a.m., according to jail spokesman John Balian.  "[Kiefer] looked like he was glad to be out," said Bali...
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A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan psychiatric facility in 1976 was back behind bars Thursday after living most of his 30 years on the run as an otherwise law-abiding family man in Tennessee, authorities said.