Some murderers in jail 'too long'
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The Lord Chief Justice says some murderers serve too long, risking jails becoming "full of geriatric lifers".
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Up to 1,200 "non-dangerous" offenders walk out of prison up to 18 days early.
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Tim Masters is expected to walk out of prison Tuesday after spending more than nine years incarcerated for murder -- and despite the promise of a new trial, a local district attorney says Masters may no longer be a suspect.
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A Polish crime writer has been jailed for 25 years after authorities found he had committed a murder that had been described in one of his thrillers, officials said on Wednesday.
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Appeal judges rule the government acted unlawfully by keeping some prisoners in jail for 'too long'.
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A Belfast man who murdered his ex-girlfriend in 2002 is due to hear if his jail term is to be extended.
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Two men are jailed for life for murdering a father-of-two in a case of mistaken identity.
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A Long Beach man who committed two murders, one of them while behind bars, was sentenced to death by a judge who called him "a Houdini in jail."
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Yvonne Roberts used to take comfort in knowing that the killer of her 3-year-old son was behind bars. That was before two recent state Supreme Court decisions let him out &#151; four decades early.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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Plans to give murderers lighter sentences if they plead guilty have been watered down.
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MOSCOW -- A former police officer was sentenced to death and nine other men, including a senior civil servant, were given long prison sentences yesterday for the murders of a leading opposition politician in Kazakhstan and two of his employees.
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NEW YORK -- The correction commissioner walks down a long row of cells painted blue, his footsteps echoing inside the massive Rikers Island jail block.
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A man convicted of murdering schoolteacher Jane Longhurst is jailed for a minimum of 26 years.
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The case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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An inmate was executed Wednesday for the drug-related slayings of a south Texas couple in 1995. Officials cut his final statement short after he tried to argue with the victims&#039; relatives.
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The killers of a City lawyer are jailed as his fiancee speaks of having her "heart ripped out" by his murder.