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"New York's first prison, for example, had an operating board composed primarily of Quaker reformers".

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The State Correction Board approved the early release of 680 inmates to ease prison overcrowding and sought approval to build a second prison for women.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Supreme Court of Peru sentenced former President Alberto K. Fujimori on Tuesday to six years in prison for ordering an illegal search as his government was collapsing in 2000, the first prison sentence for Mr. Fujimori as he stands trial on various other charges, including murder and forced disappearance.

The Angolite was the first prison publication to be nominated for a National Magazine Award, and he won a George Polk Award, one of the highest honors in American journalism.

But they said he was 31 and was serving his second prison term for robberies in Los Angeles.

Yet when in 1950 he was voted the outstanding tennis player of the first half of the 20th century in an Associated Press poll, he had only recently completed his second prison term for making sexual advances to a teenage boy.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)- Mitchum plays burned-out Boston hood Eddie "Fingers" Coyle, a small-time gun-runner on the fringes of the Boston mob who finds himself facing a second prison stint for participating in a botched robbery.

Male politicians offered a few sops to feminists: a "maternity and infancy" bill to educate expectant mothers, a law permitting women who married foreigners to remain American citizens, and financing for the first federal prison for women.

Which made Cranston a nice fit for "Trumbo," which follows the chain-smoking, prolific writer of such classic movies as "Spartacus" and "Roman Holiday," beginning with his confrontational appearance before the House Un-American Actinities Committee in 1947, which landed him first in prison for contempt of Congress and then on the Hollywood blacklist.

RSF told VICE News that Vietnam currently holds at least 27 bloggers in detention, making the country "the second biggest prison for Netizens," after China.

"Using the cudgel of criminal law in this case represents a gross abuse of power," said Mo, who counted among his clients Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is now serving his fourth prison term -- for inciting the subversion of state power.

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