A Parent in Prison, a Void at Home
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CHICAGO, May 27 -- When 12-year-old Heaven Carr wakes up, her mother is not there to make her breakfast. As the school year ends, Heaven is already sad that her mother will not be around to do the  back-to-school shopping come August.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit. Transformation happens through an instantaneous miracle; it then builds the prisoner up with familiarity of the Bible."...
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At her lowest moments during more than three months in solitary confinement in Iran's most notorious prison, Haleh Esfandiari wondered if anyone remembered her or if she had been swallowed without the world noticing.
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A murdered girl's parents return home after failing to speed up the extradition of a suspect from India.
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A man who mistreated three children, turning their home into a "prison camp", is jailed for three years.
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Fifty-three children under the age of 6 live inside a prison in Mexico City with their mothers, who are serving sentences for crimes from drug dealing to kidnapping to homicide.
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Nearly 10 months after reports of inmate abuse first surfaced, at least one parent disputes claims of progress in reforming the agency that oversees the Texas juvenile prison system.
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A man is given a suspended jail term for ignoring an order banning him from his home town.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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In the eight and a half months before his arrest, a Queens man became so obsessed with his institutionalized mother that his father moved her from nursing home to nursing home.
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CROWN POINT, Ind. - Officials are at a loss to explain how they allowed a homeless, mentally ill man accused of stealing a soda to languish in jail for 17 months.
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors.
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Alan Parastayev's family says he was beaten and then refused urgent medical treatment in prison. But there is nothing they can do about it because the state holding him in jail does not officially exist.
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John Hicks is trying to reach his mother, but a recording says her phone isn't taking calls right now.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - Police in eastern India have   rescued a man whose parents had locked him in a room in a mud   hut for 15 years on the grounds that he was mentally unstable,   officials said on Tuesday.
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Wesley Spratt's house of worship is a cramped, windowless chapel at a maximum-security prison. A cross adorns a cinderblock wall and eight wooden benches seat the inmate congregation.
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IONE, California  - Convicted murderer Greg Rollo knows the brutality of life behind bars after 31 years in a prison. But he says life has grown much worse since he was moved to a triple-bunk bed in an open gym with 199 others.