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When she delivered a food bag in June of last year, guards told her that he had been transferred from the penitentiary some weeks earlier.

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“One said he just got out of the federal penitentiary for shooting a cop, and the other had been in state jail for robbery,” Buckwalter said.

In 2019, the play was read to inmates of a women’s prison in Siberia, and Russia’s state penitentiary service praised it on its website, Petriychuk’s lawyer has said.

The last person she visited in prison, in 2004, was her friend Martha Stewart, who was serving five months in a federal penitentiary on charges related to insider trading.

Time served for the state convictions will run at the same time as the federal sentences, and the men will serve their time in federal penitentiaries.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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