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Francis Clifford Smith: Longest-Serving US Prisoner, Spared Execution Eight Times, Dies At 101
Francis Clifford Smith, the US's longest-serving inmate who survived eight scheduled executions and was served eight last meals, has died at 101 in Connecticut.
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Prison inmates have choice of violent books
Inmates in Connecticut prisons have access to true crime books and works of fiction that depict murder and graphic violence, with no apparent restrictions based on a reader's criminal history, according to a review of the prison library system by The Associated Press."In Cold Blood," about a 1959 killing in Kansas, is available in at least two Conn...
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Francis Clifford Smith: Longest-Serving US Prisoner, Spared Execution Eight Times, Dies At 101
Francis Clifford Smith, the US's longest-serving inmate who survived eight scheduled executions and was served eight last meals, has died at 101 in Connecticut.
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Prison inmates have choice of violent books
Inmates in Connecticut prisons have access to true crime books and works of fiction that depict murder and graphic violence, with no apparent restrictions based on a reader's criminal history, according to a review of the prison library system by The Associated Press."In Cold Blood," about a 1959 killing in Kansas, is available in at least two Conn...
