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01/09/2009
Ex-'Sopranos' actor faces prison for burglary try (AP via Yahoo! News)
A former actor on "The Sopranos" faces up to 15 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed a police officer.
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01/09/2009
Plan to close Riverfront State Prison causes a stir (Philadelphia Daily News)
New Jersey is preparing to close Riverfront State Prison, which sits on 16.7 acres of prime waterfront with a commanding view of the Philadelphia skyline, say law enforcement unions. But the plan is causing a stir.
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01/09/2009
Taylor's son faces years in prison for torture (Miami Herald)
The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor faces years in federal prison for torture overseas in the first U.S. case of its kind.
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01/09/2009
Son of ex-Liberian president Taylor faces 147 years in prison for overseas torture campaign (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MIAMI - The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor could be sentenced to as many as 147 years in prison for his involvement in brutal slayings and torture while commanding an elite paramilitary force overseas.
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01/09/2009
Rell Says Connecticut Can't Afford Prison Guards' Pay Raises (Hartford Courant)
Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell called Thursday for the Democrat-controlled legislature to overturn an arbitration award for unionized prison guards that she says is unaffordable. The award provides a 3 percent general wage increase in the first year that for some workers could be as high as 6.5 percent because of annual increments and lump-sum payments.
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01/08/2009
Three Men Sue Over Frozen Chicken Consumed While in Prison (Fox News)
Three men suing ConAgra Foods Inc. over frozen chicken they ate while in prison got their day in court Thursday.
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01/09/2009
Tennessee firm considers Storey County for private prison (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
VIRGINIA CITY -- A Tennessee company might build a privately run prison at an industrial park in Storey County.
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01/09/2009
School founder sent to prison (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Wilson Willard III, founder of the W.E.B. Dubois charter school in Over-the-Rhine, will serve four years in prison for theft and records tampering, a judge said Thursday morning.
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01/09/2009
Patton Boggs Fights N.Y. Lawyer's 'Kafkaesque' Detention in KGB Prison (Law.com)
New York lawyer Emanuel Zeltser awoke on a private plane headed for a KGB-monitored detention center in Belarus last March. His last memory before waking was drinking coffee at a London cafe. Since then, he's been held at three prison facilities in the former Soviet country, deprived of medications and physically tortured. He is now languishing in a KGB penal colony. It sounds like a nightmare, ...
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01/09/2009
Ex-Fluvanna prison guard sentenced for inmate sex (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A former prison guard at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women will be incarcerated for five years for having sex with inmates.
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  • Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants - Crime reduction through reform of the criminal justice system in America. CURE
  • The Fortune Society - Staffed primarily by ex-offenders, the society is a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime. Helps ex-offenders and at-risk youth break the cycle of crime and incarceration through a broad range of services.
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  • Native American Spiritual Freedom in Prison - Native Web's views on spiritual freedom in U.S. prison
  • PrisonZone - Authentic prison photos and prison art.
  • Red Onion State Prison - Super-Maximum Prison in Virginia.
  • Virginia's First Supermaximum Security Prison - Red Onion State Prison was the first of two supermaximum security prisons to open in Virginia in the past year. Intended to hold the state's most dangerous inmates, Red Onion -- and its twin, Wallens Ridge State prison -- restrict inmate movement and activities to a far greater extent than in maximum security facilities.

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