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Convict captured 3 weeks after escape from NH halfway house, feds say
A man who escaped a New Hampshire halfway house three weeks ago has been arrested and faces the possibility of going back to prison, federal prosecutors said Friday. Michael Villanueva, a 43-year-old from New York, had been at Hampshire House Residential Reentry Center in Manchester between June and Jan. 10, when his GPS ankle bracelet was tampered with and he…
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Mass. Prisons Strike Deal With Feds Over ‘Unconstitutional' Mental Health Treatment
Federal prosecutors and the Massachusetts Department of Correction have agreed to changes in response to findings that the state’s treatment of inmates with mental health issues was “unconstitutional.” After an investigation launched in 2018, former U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in 2020 that his office and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice had found reason to believe…
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Missouri Man Who Spent Decades in Prison for a Murder Two Others Confessed Seeks Exoneration
A hearing begins Monday in a case that will decide if the conviction should be overturned for a Missouri man who has spent nearly three decades in prison
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Man Who Spent Nearly Four Decades in Prison for Murder Is Cleared by DNA, and Freed
A man who served 38 years in prison for the 1983 abduction and killing of a woman in Inglewood is a free man Friday, with authorities saying newly tested DNA evidence exonerated him of the crime and identified a different person as the culprit in the slaying.