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Early prisoner release is fixing wrong problem Business Day | THOUSANDS of offenders will be released from prison from next week following President Jacob Zuma ’s announcement last month that the government will grant a special remission to specific categories of sentenced offenders, probationers and parolees. | This would see 14651 sentenced prisoners bei...
NC man with innocence case released from prison The News & Observer Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name | tool goes here By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press By GARY D. ROBERTSON | RALEIGH, N.C. -- A federal judge has struck down portions of North Carolina's public financing program for appel...
NC man with innocence case released from prison The Charlotte Observer | RALEIGH, N.C. A North Carolina man whose innocence claim on a rape conviction will be heard later this year is out of prison on parole. | The attorney for Willie Grimes says he was released Monday from the Gaston Correctional Center, where he was h...
Captain Paul Watson released from German Prison The Examiner | Monday, May 21, 2012, Captain Paul Watson of the Steve Irwin and leader of The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) was released on bail from Preungesheim Prison in Frankfurt, Germany. Watson was arrested last week Sunday on an arrest warra...
Four prisoners released to Mbeki Independent online Khartoum- Four UN deminers, including South African Thabo Siavhe, arrested by the Sudanese army along Sudan’s tense southern border, were released on Sunday and turned over to chief AU mediator Thabo Mbeki. | “We release them to President...
Prisons system ordered to release details on execution drugs Austin American Statesman | In a victory for open government, Texas prison officials on Thursday lost their latest attempt to keep secret details about its stock and suppliers of lethal injection drugs. | In an opinion dated Monday, Attorney General Greg Abbott overruled argu...
Sam Hallam released after seven years in prison The Guardian | Decision to release 24-year-old after appeal over 2004 murder conviction follows long legal battle by family Sam Hallam is sprayed with champagne by friends and family as he leaves the high court with his mother, Wendy. Photograph: Ed Willcox/Centr...
OJ Simpson appeals for release from prison The Guardian | Disgraced former NFL star, jailed in 2008 for Las Vegas robbery, is arguing lawyers were so incompetent he deserves retrial OJ Simpson is appealing for release from jail and a retrial on armed robbery charges. Photograph: Reuters | OJ Simpson is ma...
Military dogs face being put down after service because of obscure law that makes it ... The Daily Mail | Military dogs face being put down after service because of an obscure law that deems them ‘equipment’ and not personnel. | In combat zones, the canines are critical in locating explosives, clearing dangerous buildings, sniffing out narcotics and protecting troops. | But once their service is over, it can be expensive to transport them...
