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Life at Tortoise Prison Camp in Madagascar (Video)
This prison camp for radiated tortoises came about because of an awkward set of circumstances that essentially left about 1,000 of them homeless. Three years ago someone came up with the rather stupid idea of opening a adiated tortoise
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Cocaine dealer behind largest-ever West Virginia bust escapes from prison camp
Wheeling :: IL :: USA | 1 month ago
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Bureau of Prisons said he was missing during a 4 p.m. headcount at the minimum-security facility on Wednesday, although the Marshals Service was not notified that he was gone until seven hours later. Mr. Cobbs was last seen at the prison facility at
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Former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio moved to halfway house
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Font Resize The Denver Post Former Qwest chief executive Joe Nacchio, imprisoned since April 2009 and scheduled to be released in September, has been transferred from a minimum-security prison camp to a halfway house in the New York area. Nacchio had
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3 journalists die in Eritrean jail
Āsmara :: Eritrea | 9 months ago
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Three journalists jailed for over a decade have died in prison in Eritrea, the world's worst country for press freedom, rights group Reporters Without Borders said on Thursday. Dawit Habtemichael, Mattewos Habteab and Wedi Itay were reported to have
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Tree crashes into Kirkland apartment building
Kirkland :: WA :: USA | 12 months ago
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A large tree has crashed into an apartment building in the east Seattle suburb of Kirkland, damaging several units. Kirkland fire officials say the eight-unit building was evacuated after the tree hit Thursday evening...Property manager Linda Reoh
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Former prison camp to be burned for training
Arlington :: TX :: USA | 12 months ago
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A former prison camp where inmates once learned to fight forest fires will soon train some more firefighters as its building are burned over the next several weeks. The Daily Herald ( http://is.gd/Pu9zeo ) reports the rural Arlington site will be
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WW II vet, Olympian shares his story with students
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Thanks to the death-defying resilience and fast feet of 95-year-old American veteran and Olympian Louis Zamperini, students at Barrington High School Tuesday went from reading about World War II to being one degree of separation from Adolf Hitler and
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Photo of Winston Churchill on horseback after daring Boer War prison camp escape up for auction
Pretoria :: South Africa | over 1 year ago
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Never-before-seen photo of Winston Churchill on horseback after daring Boer War prison camp escape in 1899 Picture released by descendants of Arthur Knight, son of a diamond miner Expected to fetch hundreds at auction Last updated at 12:54 PM on 1st
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Guantánamo Bay's green regime has prison limits
Guantánamo :: Cuba | over 1 year ago
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Guantanamo Bay US navy base has ambitions towards green energy, but its role as a high-security prison compromises such plans. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images The 80-metre wind turbines churning the skies above Guantanamo Bay are visible from the
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Two inmates missing from Atwater's minimum-security satellite prison camp
Newark :: NJ :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Penitentiary Atwater said two inmates were discovered missing during a routine inmate count on Tuesday night at the minimum-security Satellite Prison Camp in Atwater...Ibarra, a resident of San Jacinto, Calif., is 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 160
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