Calif. Sex Offender Freed After Treatment
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A serial child molester who was the first graduate of a California treatment program for violent sexual predators was granted unconditional release Monday, despite disagreement among experts over whether he is ready to be free.
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A man who served nearly 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit has been released from prison based on new testing of DNA evidence.
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A teen freed from prison this year after his life sentence for killing a young playmate was overturned received an extended probation period Friday after violating his curfew, and was freed once more.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 7--A La Crosse man already in prison on three felony convictions on Wednesday was given five years of probation after his release for sexually assaulting two teenagers.
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Many convicted sex offenders who had profiles on the popular MySpace website are on parole, and some may be sent back to prison for e-mailing minors. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says more than half of the 210 sex offenders from his state who used the social networking site are on parole. One was returned to state custody last week for using the Internet, a violation of a condition of his release.
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With no apologies and asking for privacy, David Matthew Hicks, who was convicted of terrorist activities in March, was freed from prison
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The state is trying to dissolve a community of sex offenders living under a bridge that includes a makeshift gym, kitchen, living room and numerous pets
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WINNIPEG (CP) - A medium-security prison in Alberta has banned a Manitoba pedophile from social functions with the children of other inmates following the man's admission that the events fuel his sexual fantasies.
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PITTSBURGH - A man who botched the castration of a transgendered woman will spend the next three years on probation. "I have no intention of doing this again to animals or humans," Douglas Lenhart, 49, told Allegheny County Judge John Zottola on Monday. "I'm completely out of this.
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A judge in Monroe County, Georgia, has ruled that 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson should be released from a 10-year prison sentence for a consensual sexual encounter he had when he was 17. He has been imprisoned for more than two years after his conviction for a sex act with a 15-year-old girl. But the state attorney general quickly filed a notice of appeal, keeping Wilson in prison for the time being.
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The Supreme Court unanimously reinstated a Nevada child molester's conviction Wednesday in a decision that continued the justices' refusal to apply recent rulings on criminal procedure to older cases.
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Former "Lost" star Michelle Rodriguez has found her way out of jail. Rodriguez was released from a Los Angeles County women's jail Wednesday after serving 18 days of a 180-day sentence for violating probation in a drunken driving case.
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A Georgia court ordered the release on Monday of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a girl when the two were teenagers.
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Actor Lou Diamond Phillips was released from jail on his own recognizance Friday following his arrest earlier for allegedly physically abusing his live-in girlfriend.
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A Georgia judge ordered the release Monday of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.
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O.J. Simpson was freed from a Las Vegas jail on Wednesday evening, after spending five nights behind bars for trying to contact a defendant in an armed-robbery case that could send him to prison for life.
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A 29-year-old sex offender spent four months at a US school passing for a 12-year-old, officials say.