Prison inmates to walk free early
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More than 1,000 prisoners are to be freed later ahead of schedule as part of a move to ease prison overcrowding.
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RANGOON, Burma, Nov. 25 -- Burma announced Thursday that it would release more than 5,000 prisoners, and a senior official said a top dissident who was democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's closest aide would also be freed before long.
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Only a few hundred of 4,000 prisoners, including political dissidents, that Myanmar has vowed to free have been released and it could take at least a week for them all to leave jail, the opposition said.
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Martha Stewart took prison life in stride yesterday, taking a solo walk around the grounds of her new home and receiving two visitors.
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By Tim Moran, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 1--Some inmates in the Stanislaus County Jail may taste freedom several weeks earlier as a result of a change in a work-release program.   The program, in use for 20 years, is called the sheriff's Alternative Work Program.
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Three men released from US detention facility are expected to be freed by British police
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YANGON: All 9,248 Myanmar prison inmates promised freedom under the military government&#39;s mass release programme have been let out of jail, said a prison department source on Saturday.
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Inmates at a prison are to get a small financial bonus for good behaviour during a recent prison officer strike.
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Four remaining Britons and an Australian being held at Guantanamo Bay will be released soon, officials said Tuesday, amid reports the number of prisoners at the U.S. military base would be radically reduced.
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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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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 federal judge Tuesday granted Martha Stewart&#39;s request to go to prison as soon as possible, graciously allowing her to report by 2 pm Oct. 8. That means Stewart, as she had asked, could be out in time to plant her new spring garden.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates from the nation's largest prison system as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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District inmates held in federal prisons are now eligible to have a year shaved off their sentences for completing an intensive drug-treatment program.
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By Jay F. Marks, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 2--An appeals court ruled Thursday an Oklahoma County judge did not overstep his bounds when he ordered hundreds of inmates to be moved from the county jail to a state prison in September.
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Prison officers in England and Wales are due to report for work as normal after their national strike was ended.
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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.