Doctors Support Treatment, Not Additional Prison Time for Cameron Douglas and ...
Huffington Post
The unprecedented, nearly five-year prison sentence for simple drug possession was meted out last year to Cameron Douglas, son of actor Michael Douglas. As reported yesterday by Jesse McKinley of The New York Times, Cameron Douglas who began abusing ...

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Young Buck -- Heading to PRISON for Gun Possession
TMZ.com
Young Buck won't be a free man much longer -- TMZ has learned the rapper has agreed to serve 18 months in prison for gun possession, following a massive IRS raid on his Nashville home in 2010. According to the deal, Buck agreed to plead guilty to ...
Young Buck Heads To Prison After Losing Tennessee MansionMTV.com (blog)
Young Buck To Serve Prison Term Soon, Evicted From Nashville HomeBallerStatus.com
Young Buck Agrees Plea Deal Prison Sentence - ReportContactmusic.com
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Gay advocates urge no prison time for Dharun Ravi
INDOlink
Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers University student, faces up to 10 years in prison at his sentencing on Monday for hate crimes after spying on his roommate's gay tryst, but many gay advocates are calling for no time behind bars.
Rutgers Family Bitterly Seeks Prison TimeABC News
Rutgers webcam case: Victim's family wants prison for Dharun RaviLos Angeles Times
Former Rutgers student gets 30 days prison for bias crimeKGMI
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Sheriff: Gang started prison riot in Mississippi
BusinessWeek
By HOLBROOK MOHR As many as 300 inmates, some of them armed with makeshift weapons such as broomsticks, rioted at a privately run prison for illegal immigrants, beating a guard to death and injuring 19 people, a sheriff said Monday.
Guard dies in riot at private Mississippi prisonSan Francisco Chronicle
Mississippi Prison Riot Started By Gang, Sheriff SaysHuffington Post

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False convictions: 10000 years in prison
msnbc.com (blog)
Nearly 900 defendants wrongfully convicted of serious crimes in the US in the past 23 years spent a combined total of more than 10000 years in prison, according to a new database called the “National Registry for Exonerations.
Innocent Man Spends 12 Years In Prison For Lake Elsinore RapePatch.com
None of Them Were Guilty, but Served 11 Years in Prison on an AverageJDJournal.com
Registry tallies over 2000 wrongful convictions since 1989Boston Herald
89.3 KPCC (blog)
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Chavez: Negotiations helped end prison standoff
The Associated Press
Chavez said on television that he had been worried the situation at the prison might turn into "a disaster." The standoff at La Planta prison in Caracas ended Friday night as the last of more than 1600 inmates filed out and climbed aboard trucks to be ...

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Former Sri Lanka army chief freed from prison
The Associated Press
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI, AP – 8 hours ago COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's former army chief, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters.
Sri Lanka Releases Ex-Army Chief From PrisonNew York Times

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Ex-Haiti telecom official sent to prison for nine years in Miami bribery case
MiamiHerald.com
A Miami federal judge sent a former top official for Haiti's telecom company to prison for nine years in a bribery case that legal sources say is now focusing on deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. BY JAY WEAVER A federal judge Monday ...
Ex-Haiti official gets US prison for telecom briberyReuters
DOJ: Ex-Haitian Official Sentenced To 9 Yrs In Prison For Role In Bribery SchemeWall Street Journal
Former Haitian official gets 9-year prison sentence in telecom bribery caseWashington Post
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
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Prison workers used in many Cuban government enterprises
MiamiHerald.com
Prison labor in Cuba is extensive yet “like the dark side of the moon, not well known at all,” said Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation. A Provari business prospectus claimed it had 150 ...

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Northern Ireland policeman's widow decries prison terms for Continuity IRA ...
Washington Post
DUBLIN — The widow of a Northern Ireland policeman killed by Irish Republican Army die-hards condemned the length of prison sentences imposed Monday on his murderers, saying they were too short to deter more attacks by IRA factions.
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