George Wallace's shooter to leave Maryland prison
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The man who shot and paralyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace on the presidential campaign trail in 1972 is due to be let out of prison this year after serving 35 years of a 53-year term, a prison official said on Thursday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Hamas's top leader in the  West Bank was released from an Israeli prison Thursday after  completing a two-year sentence, potentially bolstering the  militant Palestinian group's standing in the area.
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David Hicks, the only person sentenced by the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try suspected terrorists, is scheduled to walk out of prison in Australia on Saturday morning.
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Levar Haley Washington was finally free on parole after years in prison for robbery &#151; but unbeknownst to authorities, the Muslim convert was already plotting more serious crimes.
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The former federal prosecutor in Maryland said he was forced out because of investigations involving associates of the stateâs governor, a Republican.
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Three participants in a 1983 palace coup walked out of prison Wednesday after nearly a quarter century behind bars for an attack that led to a U.S. invasion of Grenada.
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Wilbert Rideau -- who had been convicted of murder three times by all-white juries -- was found guilty of manslaughter late Saturday night. That allowed him to walk out of prison a free man.
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A Maryland man accused of running through the U.S. Capitol with a loaded handgun appeared in court Tuesday but will undergo days of psychiatric treatment before his arraignment.
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Prosecutors moved Friday to drop the murder case against a man freed after nearly a decade in prison, but stopped short of saying he was exonerated by the DNA evidence that led a judge to overturn his conviction.
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The head of the Justice Department's embattled Civil Rights Division is to resign at the end of August, officials said yesterday, making him the latest in a series of senior political appointees to leave the agency amid continued controversy over Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
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NASHVILLE, Dec. 2 -- A convicted murderer who escaped from a work-release program 33 years ago was captured in Alabama, where he had been working in construction using his real name, U.S. marshals announced Saturday.
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Homemaking icon Martha Stewart will  serve her five-month jail sentence for lying about a suspicious  stock sale at a minimum security prison in West Virginia, a  source close to the case said on Wednesday.
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Michael Vick left Virginia on Monday and was transferred to a Kansas prison to serve the rest of his 23-month sentence on a federal dogfighting charge.
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An American was released from an Afghan prison and flown out of the country Saturday after serving more than two years for running a private prison as part of a freelance hunt for terrorists, officials said.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Allen Snyder's garden gnome is apparently out of jail and now traveling the country.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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Kenny Richey, who has been on death row for 21 years, is expected to be set free in a week, his lawyer says.