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  • August 2008

    • Kremlin Foe Denied Bid for Parole

      Associated Press  |  Aug 22, 08 10:40 AM CDT

      Kremlin Foe Denied Bid for Parole

      (AP) - A Russian court has rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's request for parole on Friday, ordering the jailed oil tycoon to serve out the remainder of his sentence in a ruling his lawyer called politically motivated. Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos oil company and once Russia's richest man, was sentenced to 8 years in a Siberian prison in 2005 for tax evasion and fraud in what Kremlin critics slammed as a flawed trial. More »

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      Russia  • prison  • Siberia  • political prisoner  • parole

    • Chapman Ashamed He Killed Lennon

      Associated Press  |  Aug 20, 08 11:27 AM CDT

      Chapman Ashamed He Killed Lennon

      (Newser) - Mark David Chapman told the parole board that he is ashamed of killing John Lennon, according to transcripts of the hearing released yesterday. "I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. I have changed a lot," he said in his failed bid, the AP reports. More »

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      Beatles  • John Lennon  • parole  • prisoner  • Mark David Chapman

  • June 2008

    • Record 2.3M Crowd US Prisons

      Washington Post  |  Jun 12, 08 5:46 AM CDT

      Record 2.3M Crowd US Prisons

      (Newser) - A record 7.2 million criminals were behind bars, on parole, or being supervised on probation in 2006—a figure that cost taxpayers $45 billion and has states rethinking sentencing laws and shipping inmates elsewhere, the Washington Post reports. Of that number, 2.3 million people were in jail or prison, the highest of any nation. More »

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      crime  • probation  • parole  • prisons  • criminal justice system  • incarceration

  • March 2008

    • No Lie: Polygraphs On the Rise

      Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 22, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      No Lie: Polygraphs On the Rise

      (Newser) - Despite lingering reservations about its effectiveness, the polygraph is gaining traction with law enforcement. The lie-detection program has spiked 53% in the last decade, and truth be told, just the threat of a test keeps convicts honest, drug addicts and sex offenders told the Wall Street Journal. “Don’t believe anyone who tells you polygraph doesn’t work,” one Oregon pedophile said. More »

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      Texas  • Colorado  • Denver  • Houston  • Oregon  • Dallas  • domestic violence  • sex offenders  • MRI  • parole  • polygraph

  • November 2007
  • July 2007

    • Parole Chief: Right Decision Made on Killers

      Hartford Courant (Conn.)  |  Jul 26, 07 4:55 PM CDT

      Parole Chief: Right Decision Made on Killers

      (Newser) - A Connecticut parole chief is under fire for releasing a burglar who’s now suspected of kidnapping and raping two sisters before murdering them, along with their mother. But Robert Farr is standing by his decision, claiming the board was missing facts at the time of the parole—and its decision might have been different otherwise. More »

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      murder  • kidnapping  • rape  • Connecticut  • parole  • burglar

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