Former Ill. Gov. Ryan reports to prison
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Accompanied by his wife and a longtime friend, former Illinois Gov. George Ryan avoided the media but not the inevitable Wednesday when he walked into prison to start serving a 6 1/2-year corruption sentence.
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By William Lin and John-Henry Doucette, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 8--PORTSMOUTH -- A grand jury Thursday accused former Sheriff Gary Waters of three misdemeanor charges related to his oversight of campaign funds and inmates.
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A former state senator who was released after serving about three months of a one-year sentence in a bribery scheme was ordered back to jail Friday by a city commission.
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By Michael H. Samuels, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 24--TAMPA -- Former Tampa Preparatory School swim coach Kimberly Brabson III, accused of secretly videotaping 18 underage girls changing clothes, went back to jail Friday.
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A Republican senator pleaded guilty earlier this month to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge stemming from his arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, according to state criminal records.
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Disgraced former Irish Foreign Minister Ray Burke has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to filing false tax returns.
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Former Gov. John G. Rowland, driven from office by a corruption scandal, pleaded guilty Thursday to a single federal charge that carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.
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An indicted businessman who poured thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Barack Obama and other politicians was jailed Monday after prosecutors disclosed he received $3.5 million from an Iraqi billionaire while claiming to be broke.
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Man served 4 years on charges that some say were trumped up to retaliate for aggressive reporting.
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The city's former mayor, already serving a 37-year federal prison sentence for having sex with children, pleaded no contest Tuesday to state child-sex charges and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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An American who served as Iraqâs electricity minister before being jailed on corruption charges.
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Aaron Patterson's account of being convicted of two murders and tortured by police helped persuade a governor to set him free and empty Illinois' death row.
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By Kyle Gilbertson | September 24, 2004 | Page 2. A SPECIAL grand jury investigating the mass beating of prisoners at Chicagoâs Cook County Jail in 1999 issued a report charging that responsibility runs straight to the top.
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A retiring governor launches a scathing attack on the way the prison service is run.
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A former American soldier convicted in Afghanistan of running a private jail and torturing terror suspects has left the country after three years in a Kabul prison, the warden said Wednesday.
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Former Gov. George Ryan, who was acclaimed by capital punishment foes for suspending executions in Illinois and emptying out death row, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison Wednesday in the corruption scandal that ended his political career.
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Former Gov. George Ryan was ordered Friday to start serving a 6 1/2-year prison sentence in less than two weeks, but his lawyers held out hope they could keep him out of prison