La. Prison Journalist Freed After 44 Years
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Wilbert Rideau, imprisoned since the days "whites only" signs hung across the South, enjoyed his first full day of freedom Sunday, after a jury effectively decided he had been punished enough for a killing that continues to divide his hometown along racial lines.
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, who  commanded as much attention behind bars as on the Hollywood  party scene, regained her freedom early on Tuesday after  serving three weeks in jail for violating probation in a  drunken-driving case.
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was  released from jail on Thursday for medical reasons after  serving just three days of a three-week term, but was confined  to her home with an electronic ankle bracelet for 40 days.
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Heiress Paris Hilton is released from her Los Angeles jail after serving 24 days for a probation violation.
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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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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was freed early Wednesday in Gaza City after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his abductors.
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Cuba&#39;s most famous political prisoner, the dissident poet RaÃºl Rivero, was yesterday released by Fidel Castro&#39;s regime after serving 18 months of a 20-year sentence.
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French rock star Bertrand Cantat is freed after serving half his jail term for killing his actress girlfriend.
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, who commanded as much attention behind bars as on the Hollywood party scene, regained her freedom on Tuesday after serving three weeks in jail for violating probation in a drunk-driving case.
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Afghan authorities have released from jail an American imprisoned in 2004 for running a private jail and illegally detaining and torturing people in a freelance war on terror.
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One of the two CBS journalists kidnapped in the Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday has been released.
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Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune was released from jail Thursday, more than two years after his arrest on charges of orchestrating the killing of political opponents at the start of a rebellion that engulfed the country.
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A shadowy Iraqi group has released two French news reporters, who have spent almost four months in captivity. France reacted with joy Tuesday at the news that reporters Christian Chesnot and George Malbrunot had finally been released.
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A 76-year-old man who spent nearly every day of the last four decades in prison walked free after a judge found that deputies extracted his confession to a 1962 robbery by crushing his fingers between cell bars.
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A man who spent 21 years behind bars for the rape of a police officer's wife was freed Friday after being cleared by DNA testing.
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Vietnam frees dissident Pham Hong Son, jailed four years ago for posting a US article on democracy.
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One of the women who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate President Ford 32 years ago was released on parole Monday from a federal prison in California, according to a Bureau of Prisons spokesman.