Alabama Prison Inmates Celebrate Degrees
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For a few minutes, Anthony Murphy forgot he was a convicted sex offender and felt the respect that comes to an accomplished scholar.
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Two former inmates of the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq testified Tuesday. Both maintained that the abuse of prisoners by American soldiers there, in the words of one of them, "represented the true face of the U.S."
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Prisoners at a US jail in Afghanistan communicate via video link with their families for the first time.
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. - A pair of shackles. That's all that stood between a Potomac Highlands Regional Jail inmate and potential freedom.  Edward E.
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Three death row inmates were well under way in plotting an escape through ventilation shafts and likely had outside help, possibly from prison employees, according to a warden's report.
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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
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Two inmates returned Friday to the scene of their daring Hollywood-style escape last month, which also led to the suicide of one of their guards.
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YANGON Hundreds of inmates were released from Myanmar&#39;s main prison Friday, witnesses said, a day after the military regime announced that it was expanding its prisoner release program to more than 9,000 people.
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The penalty for smoking pot in Alabama is up to 99 years in prison. But that hasn&#39;t stopped the Cotton State - along with Mississippi and Georgia â-rom siding with California in its battle to keep medical marijuana legal.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 10--GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors are considering strapping ankle monitoring devices on pretrial, nonviolent inmates and sending them back on the streets as a way to combat jail overcrowding.
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Two fraternity brothers both received two-year prison terms Monday from a judge who said she wanted to send a message with the state's first prosecution under a felony hazing law.
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AH, CALIFORNIA. The land of warm sunshine. Plentiful beaches. Stunning scenery. Hollywood glitz.  Who wouldn't want to live there? Well, maybe not the inmates jammed into the Golden State's overcrowded prison system.
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New generation of violent inmates blamed for growth of gang culture in prisons
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Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.
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By Annie Nelson, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 5--HUNTSVILLE -- Jail, sweet jail.   Gone are the video cameras, intercoms and most of the bulletproof glass and bars from the windows. After four months of renovation, the old Randolph County Jail is beginning to look like home.
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It was far from Folsom Prison and certainly no "Jailhouse Rock," but folk singer Silvio Rodriguez and other musicians played a penitentiary in Cuba on Monday through a government program to bring art to inmates.
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More than half of America's prison and jail inmates have symptoms of a mental health problem, the Justice Department estimated Wednesday. But fewer than one-third of those with problems are getting treatment behind bars.