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An Arizona death row inmate who spent 29 years behind bars has been released from prison PHOENIX -- An Arizona death row inmate whose convictions and death sentence in the 1994 death of a 4-year-old were thrown out was released from prison Thursday. Barry Lee Jones had spent 29 years behind bars for murder, child abuse and sexual assault convictions in the death of his girlfriend’s daughter. A Pima County judge ordered the release of Jones after approving a deal between his defense team and prosecutors, who said a medical re-examination of the case didn’t support a finding that Jones caused the girl’s injury. Jones pleaded guilty to a lesser murder charge. In early May 1994, Jones drove the child and her mother to a Tucson hospital, where the child was pronounced dead upon arrival. Her death was determined to have been caused by a small bowel laceration due to “blunt abdominal trauma.” Authorities had previously alleged that Jones had beaten and sexually assaulted the girl. The Ari...

Danelo Cavalcante escaped from prison days after being sentenced to life in prison without parole. Police have been on the heels of a convicted murderer who escape d from a suburban Philadelphia prison in late August. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was convicted of first-degree murder in August for fatally stabbing his former girlfriend in 2021. This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend, escaped on Aug. 31, 2023, from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. Chester County Prison via AP Days after being sentenced, he broke out of the Chester County Prison in Pocopson Township -- where he was waiting to be transferred to a state correctional institution -- by copying a method another inmate used to escape from the prison weeks prior, officials said. Cavalcante is also wanted for a homicide charge in his native country of ...

Investigators in Georgia are asking for the public's help after four inmates escaped from a detention center early Monday morning. Investigators in Georgia are asking for the public's help in finding four men who escape d from a jail early Monday morning. The four detainees allegedly escape d the Bibb County Detention Center around 3 a.m. local time through a damaged day room window and a cut fence, the Bibb County Sheriff's office said. A blue Dodge Challenger pulled up to the jail and picked up the men before fleeing the scene, according to the sheriff's office. Chavis Stokes, Joey Fournier, Johnifer Barnwell and Marck Anderson, four inmates who escaped from the Bibb County Detention Center in Georgia. Bibb County Sheriff's Office The fugitives were identified as Joey Fournier, 52, who was being held on murder charges, Marc Kerry Anderson, 24, who was being held on aggravated assault charges, Dernard Barnwell, 37, who was being held by the U.S. Marshalls for an u...