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Breaking News Tue, 14 Feb 2012
Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons
Huffington Post
A June 2005 file photo of the Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut, Ohio, which the state sold to Corrections Corporation of America last year. | As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a...
Lakin's release date from federal prison extended by a year
STL Today
| Metro East legal and political heavyweight Thomas Lakin's release from federal prison on a cocaine-related conviction has been pushed back one year, ostensibly because of his no-contest plea to a state child molestation charge. | The Federal Bureau...
Myanmar: Call For Release From Prison Of Former Army Officer
Scoop
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 3:03 pm | Press Release: William Gomes | February 7, 2012 | U Win Mra | Chairman | Myanmar National Human Rights Commission | 27 Pyay Road | Hlaing Township | Yangon | MYANMAR | Tel: +95-1-659668 | Fax: +95-1-659668 | Re: ...
Convicted murderer released from prison
Otago Daily Times
| Convicted murder James Herbert Dahlberg has been released from prison, 20 years after he was jailed for killing his estranged wife. | Ann Urquhart's body has never been found and the conviction was made on circumstantial evidence after Dahlberg was...
Spot-fixer Amir given early release from prison
Sydney Morning Herald
| Released from jail, but still to serve a five-year ban from the game ... Mohammad Amir. Photo: Getty Images | LONDON: Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Amir was released on Wednesday from a British jail after serving half of a six-month sentence for his ...
Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Aamer released from English prison
The Australian
| PAKISTAN cricketer Mohammad Aamer has been released from a British jail after serving half of a six-month sentence for his part in a spot-fixing scam. | The 19-year-old was freed from Portland Prison in Dorset, south-west England. | Aamer, then a r...
Mohammad Amir Released From Prison
Sporting Life
| Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Amir has been released from jail after serving half of a six-month sentence for his part in a fixing scam. | Amir, 19, who had been tipped to become one of the all-time great fast bowlers, was freed from Portland Prison ...
Military Abuse
A Syrian forces tank moves along a road during clashes with the Syrian army defectors, in the Rastan area in Homs province, central Syria, on Monday Jan. 30, 2012.
(photo: AP)
Homs Attack: Is This Syria's Benghazi Moment?
Skynews
| A damaged armoured military vehicle is pictured after clashes in Homs | Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor Much analysis has been written comparing the Syrian town of Homs to Benghazi in Libya. | "Is this Syria's Benghazi moment?" is the question, referring to how, just hours before a probable massacre, Nato flew to the rescue of the besieged t...


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