After decades in prison, freedom for man
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For more than two decades, Ken Richey insisted he didn't set a fire that killed a toddler. He maintained his innocence from behind bars, even though it cost him his freedom.
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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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Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man released from a Pakistani jail after spending 18 years on death row, spoke of how he turned to Islam for solace as his situation worsened in prison, in an interview published in The Times.
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An Australian who became the first person convicted at an American war crimes trial since World War II was freed from prison after completing his U.S.-imposed sentence.
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A Sri Lankan man has been released from prison after spending 50 years on remand, his lawyer said Monday.
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A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan psychiatric facility in 1976 was back behind bars Thursday after living most of his 30 years on the run as an otherwise law-abiding family man in Tennessee, authorities said.
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - Many inmates at San Quentin  prison haven't been outside its towering barbed-wire fence for  decades. Yet, like many other Americans, they say their lives  were transformed by the Sept. 11 attacks.
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"Living in an environment that gives them individual responsibility, challenges and demands ... can motivate inmates to change their behavior"  The minimum-security Bastoey Prison, a lockup on a lush island that has often been compared to a summer camp, now has claimed a new distinction: the world's first ecological prison.Without locked gates or barbed wire, the prison operates with solar panels, wood-fire heating instead of oil, strict recycling and eco-friendly food production _ a 10-year project officials say was aimed at helping the roughly 115 prisoners learn values such as protecting the environment and respecting others.'Our job is to create the best possible development opportunities for the individual, and lay the foundation for possible changes,' said prison director Oeyvind Alnaes. Read more
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On the eve of his execution, the man at the center of one of the 20th century's most notorious crimes was at peace.
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Sick and tired of hearing about Paris Hilton? Then pack your suitcase and head for a desert island because America&#39;s most famous celebrity inmate is about to be a free woman again.
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Now that he's been set free, Genarlow Wilson, a young man who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager, said he wants to pursue a college degree in either sociology or business.
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No longer behind bars, a British citizen who spent 20 years on Ohio's death row was set to complete his long journey home Tuesday.
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George W. Bush has often  expressed his admiration for the yearning for freedom in  Communist East Germany that led to the collapse of the Berlin  Wall on his father&#39;s watch 18 years ago.
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A Briton is said to be in good spirits after being transferred from death row in the US to another jail.
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The man who shot and paralyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace on the presidential campaign trail in 1972 is due to be let out of prison this year after serving 35 years of a 53-year term, a prison official said on Thursday.
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Close to an honorable discharge from the Army, a former inmate at Rikers Island jail is finding that what the Army forgave is remembered at home.
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Hundreds of South African prisoners, who have been in jail since the apartheid era, are hoping to reclaim their freedom by convincing the government that their crimes were politically motivated.