Event class: prison, released, years, sentence, sentenced, months, parole, federal, serving, served

Events with high posterior probability

Chris Langham	On 14 November 2007, he won an appeal against the length of his sentence and was released after serving three and a half months.
Michael Peterson (murder suspect)	On December 16, 2011, Peterson was released from the Durham County jail on $ 300,000 bail and placed under house arrest with a tracking anklet.
James Arthur Ray	Ray was released on February 26, 2010, after bail was reduced to $ 250,000.
Haley Barbour	In March 2011, Barbour drew criticism for his role in allowing the release of a convicted killer eight years into a 20-year sentence.
Momir Nikolic	Nikolic was transferred to Finland to serve his sentence on 11 April 2007.
Kwame Kilpatrick	He was released from federal custody on April 6, 2011.
James Stacy Barbour	he began his sixty-day jail sentence at Rikers Island on February 29, 2008.
James R. Thompson	He was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in federal prison and began serving his sentence on November 7, 2007.
Alberto Rodriguez (Puerto Rican Nationalist)	However, he was released early from prison, after President Bill Clinton extended a clemency offer in August 0f 1999.
Robert Rozier	After serving ten years of the sentence, Rozier was set free in 1996.
Raymond Towler	The charges were vacated on May 5, 2010 after Towler had served over 27 years of a life sentence.
Sara Jane Olson	After serving seven years, about half of her sentence, Olson was released from prison on March 17, 2009, and will serve her parole in Minnesota.
Roger Avary	On July 10, 2010, after spending eight months in jail, Avary was released.
George Wright (fugitive)	On August 19, 1970, between 10 p. m. and 11 p. m., after serving over 7 years and 6 months of his sentence, Wright joined three inmates and'' just walked out'' between bed checks from a state prison farm at Leesburg State Prison, now known as the Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, New Jersey.
Carroll Pickett	In 1980 he began serving as a chaplain in the Huntsville, Texas, prison, where he spent most of the next 15 years working with prisoners facing imminent execution.
Anthony Papa	Papa served 12 years in Sing Sing before Governor George Pataki granted him clemency in 1996.
Papa Wemba	He was eventually found guilty at some level in June 2003 and spent three and a half months in prison, an experience that, on his release after a $ 30,000 bail was posted, he declared had had a profound psychological effect on him.
Russell Williams	Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert F. Scott sentenced Williams on October 22, 2010, to two concurrent terms of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Kirk Bloodsworth	In 1993, Bloodsworth was released ; by that time, he had spent almost nine years in prison, two of them on death row.
Claude Dallas	Dallas escaped from the Idaho State Correctional Institution east of Kuna in March 1986 and was on the run for almost a year.
Paul Spadafora	Spadafora ended up back in jail on a parole violation, but was released in July 2007.
Faezeh Hashemi	She was released in March 2013 upon the completion of the sentence.
Roman Shukhevych	Shukhevych was sentenced to 3 years in jail, however, because of the 1935 amnesty he was released from jail after spending half a year in the Bereza Kartuska Concentration Camp and two years in prison.
Roger Avary	On September 29, 2009, he was sentenced to 1 year in work furlough (allowing him to go to his job during the day and then report back to the furlough facility at night) and 5 years of probation.
Arthur Shawcross	Shawcross served 14 1/2 years in state prison before he was released on parole in April 1987.
Ahmad Bradshaw	On February 15, 2009, he surrendered himself to Virginia authorities in order to finish the final 31 days of his sentence.
Hans Lammers	The sentence was later reduced to 10 years by U. S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy, and he was finally pardoned and released in 1952.
Clinton Jackson	According to Sports Illustrated, he was still serving a life sentence as of July 2006.
Albert DeSalvo	He is currently serving a life sentence for the 1967 shooting death of an Andover, Massachusetts gas station attendant.
Barry Locke	On September 29, 1983, Judge Pierce reduced Locke's sentence to 6 to 10 years, as he had miscalculated the date when Locke would have been eligible for parole.
Mao Yuanxin	He had been released from prison in October 1993 after serving his sentence.
Joseph Godfrey	After serving three years he was pardoned and freed in 1866.
Samuel B. Kent	On June 15, 2009, Kent reported to the Federal Medical Center, Devens in Devens, Massachusetts to begin his sentence.
Bo Hi Pak	In 2006, Pak was released on probation after serving 2 years and 3 1/2 months.
Prescott Townsend	Prescott was arrested on January 29, 1943 for participating in an'' unnatural and lascivious act,'' and was sentenced to eighteen months in the Massachusetts House of Corrections on Deer Island, although no one in his family applied any pressure to shorten his jail time.
Kenneth McGriff	He was sent back to prison on parole violations by year's end, and served another 2 1/2 years' incarceration before being released in 1997.
Hal Turner	According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, he was incarcerated in Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute with a projected release date of October 3, 2012.
Ronnie Biggs	On 4 July 2007, Biggs was moved from Belmarsh Prison to Norwich Prison on compassionate grounds.
Warren Jeffs	On July 9, 2008, Jeffs was taken from jail in Arizona to a Nevada hospital for what the sheriff described as a serious medical problem.
Marco Camenisch	In January 2003, after a hunger strike against the conditions of imprisonment he was suffering, he was transferred to a prison in Chur with better conditions.
Iran Teymourtash	Abdolhossein Teymourtāsh was murdered in prison in 1933, and his immediate family was held under house arrest on one of its farflung estates for an extended period of time.
Paul White, Baron Hanningfield	On 12 September 2011, it was reported Hanningfield was released from prison on home detention curfew, after serving just a quarter of his 9 month sentence.
Marian Price	On 30 May 2013, Price was released from prison after it was decided by the Parole Commissioners.
H. Guy Hunt	In February 1998 he asked the parole board to reduce his probation by four months ; the judge instead increased the probation by five years.
Whitey Bulger	As of December 17th 2013 Bulger is currently incarcerated at the Federal Transfer Center FTC at Oklahoma City, OK.
O. Henry	When he learned that his wife was dying, Porter returned to Austin in February 1897 and surrendered to the court, pending an appeal.
George Russell Weller	On November 20, 2006, Weller received probation on all counts after a judge determined that Weller was too ill to go to prison, where he would likely be a burden on prison authorities and taxpayers.
Safdar Sarki	In early November 2007, a local judge ordered that Sarki be granted bail and released from custody.
Robert Soblen	Soblen was ordered to report to prison to begin his sentence on June 28, 1962.
Slick Rick	Rick was continuously refused bail, but after 17 months in prison he was released on November 7, 2003.
Dennis Nilsen	Nilsen was convicted at the Old Bailey in November 1983 of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder and is currently incarcerated at the HMP Full Sutton maximum security prison in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway	This led to his being disciplined, which in turn led to a 10-day prison strike by conscientious objectors before he was transferred to Lincoln Jail, where he spent some time in solitary confinement until finally released in 1919.
Thomas Trantino	Trantino was finally released on February 11, 2002, after spending 38 years in the New Jersey prison system, making him the longest-serving prisoner in the state as of the time of his parole.
Kathy Boudin	Three months after her 60th birthday, Boudin was granted parole on August 20, 2003 in her third parole hearing, and released from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility on September 17, 2003.
Gary Rosenblatt	He was released on parole on January 10, 2008, and will remain on parole for four years.
Carmine Persico	As of February 2013, Carmine Persico is serving life imprisonment at the Butner Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Medium in Butner, North Carolina.
Joseph Achuzie	When Biafra surrendered on January 15, 1970 he was given full amnesty by Nigerian President Yakubu Gowon and was released from prison.
Osman Digna	He served in prison for eight years and after his release remained in Egypt until his death in 1926.
Frank Ballance	He began serving his sentence at the medium-security federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, on December 30, 2005.
Jeffrey Archer	In September 2002 he was transferred to a Category'' B'' prison, Lincoln, for a month, before returning to the Category'' D'' HM Prison Hollesley Bay in Suffolk.
George Ryan	On January 11, 2003, just two days before leaving office, Ryan commuted (to'' life'' terms) the sentences of everyone on or waiting to be sent to Illinois' death row -- a total of 167 convicts -- due to his belief that the death penalty could not be administered fairly.
Shin Chaeho	Shin was sentenced 10 years in prison, and died in prison of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1936.
Mohamed Harbi	For the next six years he was transferred between prisons until he was placed in house arrest in 1971.
Dave Hilton, Jr.	On August 20, 2007, Hilton was arrested by police and returned to jail for breaching conditions of his release.
Sherman Austin	Austin was convicted under a plea agreement in 2002 and served a one year sentence in federal prison.
Owney Madden	After serving nine years of his sentence, Madden was released on parole in 1923.
Paolo Scaroni	In 1996, Scaroni was reportedly sentenced to one year and four months in prison, but served no time since the sencence was below the limit for going to prison.
Howie Winter	When the FBI informed him that Whitey had been a snitch all those years and offered Winter a deal if he would inform on Bulger, Winter refused the deal telling the FBI he was no'' rat'', despite facing another decade behind bars, which he would serve, being released from prison in July 2002.
Jeff Fort	Fort served two years at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth and was parole d in 1976.
Robert Bates (loyalist)	In October 1996, 18 months prior to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Bates was cleared for early release by the Life Sentence Review Board.
Ronnie Biggs	In December 2007, Biggs issued a further appeal, from Norwich Prison, asking to be released from jail to die with his family :'' I am an old man and often wonder if I truly deserve the extent of my punishment.
Milton Orkopoulos	On 25 August 2009 the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal rejected Orkopoulos' appeal against his conviction but reduced his maximum sentence to 13 years and eight months (instead of the 13 years and 11 months sentence by the trial court) with a non-parole period of nine years.
Elie Wiesel	Hunt was convicted on July 21, 2008, and was sentenced to two years imprisonment, but was given credit for time served and good behavior ; he was released on probation and ordered to undergo psychological treatment.
Clayton J. Lonetree	His sentence was reduced to 15 years, but he was released in 1996 after serving only nine years at the United States Disciplinary Barracks.
Matthew Madonna	Madonna was sent to prison again, but released on September 22, 2003.
Calvin Fairbank	Pardoned in 1849 after four years of his first sentence, Fairbank returned to his Underground Railroad work.
William Calley	On April 1, 1971, only a day after Calley was sentenced, U. S. President Richard Nixon ordered him transferred from Leavenworth prison to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal.
Stephen Gough	He was released on 20 July 2011, but immediately rearrested after leaving the prison naked, and received another 657 day sentence.
Jeffrey Archer	Archer was sent to Belmarsh Prison, a Category'' A'' prison, but was moved to Wayland Prison, a Category'' C'' prison in Norfolk, on 9 August 2001.
Dietrich Klagges	In 1955, Klagges's wife applied for her husband's early release from prison without further probation ary conditions.
Salman Khan	On 10 April 2006, he was handed a five-year jail term and remanded to Jodhpur jail until 13 April when he was granted bail.
Wayne Boden	Boden was sentenced to three additional life terms and he was sent to the Kingston Penitentiary, where he began serving his sentence on 16 February 1972.
Mystikal	On January 11, 2007, Mystikal was released from custody on the federal misdemeanor tax convictions (as his one-year sentence had expired), but he remained in custody on the six-year sentence for the Louisiana state felony convictions.
Gary M. Heidnik	The original sentence was overturned on appeal, and Heidnik spent three years of his incarceration in mental institutions prior to being released in April 1983 under the supervision of a state sanctioned mental health program.
Tommy F. Robinson	In early 1981, in order to relieve jail overcrowding he ordered a group of state prisoners being held at the Pulaski County Jail to be taken to the state prison at Pine Bluff.
Shi Ming Yi	On August 26, 2010, Ming Yi was released from prison after serving four months ; he was given one-third remission on his jail term for good behaviour but put on the home detention scheme in which he was electronically tagged and only allowed to leave the house at fixed times.
H?lie de Saint Marc	He spent 5 years in the prison at Tulle before being graced with a pardon on December 25, 1966 ; Christmas Day.
Kip Kinkel	On June 11, 2007, Kinkel, nearing his 25th birthday (maximum age to be held as a juvenile in Oregon), was transferred from the Oregon Youth Authority, MacLaren Correctional Facility, to the Oregon State Correctional Institution, Oregon Department of Corrections.
Paul Magee	He was released from prison in late 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, and returned to live with his family in Tralee.
Gustav Mesmer	Mesmer was to spend a total of 35 years in mental institutions before finally being released in 1964.
Meek Mill	Mill was released during the early portion of 2009 under a five year parole agreement.
Ahn Doo-hee	At the outset of the Korean War in 1950, Ahn was released from prison, having served only one year of his 15-year sentence.
Arne Treholt	In 1986, prison officials discovered that he planned to break out, and he was swiftly transferred to another maximum security prison for long term inmates, Ullersmo Prison.
Georgios Zoitakis	He remained in prison for 13 years until 1988, when he was released, due to deteriorating health.
Bernardino Verro	He only stayed two years and in the spring of 1898 he returned to Sicily, where he had to serve the six months in jail to which he had been convicted.
Dylcia Noemi Pagan	Dylcia Noemi was finally released from prison on September 10, 1999, after President Bill Clinton extended her clemency.
Mikhail Trepashkin	In September 2005 after serving two years of his sentence, Trepashkin was released on parole, but two weeks later was re-arrested after the State appealed the parole decision.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov	Nine years after his death, in 1953, his plant given over to the Sukhoi bureau.
Gary Botting	As an investigative reporter, in 1966 Botting opted to serve time in jail rather than pay parking fines so that he could write an exposé on security and health problems at the notorious Victoria County Jail in Ontario -- eventually forcing the prison to close.
Joseph Barboza	He was first sent to prison in 1950 to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Concord for five years.