Prison

Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin — better known as the “West Memphis Three” — were released from prison Friday after entering first-degree murder pleas for the 1993 deaths of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, a small community just outside Memphis, Tennessee. In a somewhat confusing arrangement with prosecutors, the men entered the guilty pleas while maintaining their innocen

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that Steven Robb, 47, of Great Falls has escaped from prison and still has not been spotted. After serving time for a 20 year sentence, according to the Great Falls Tribune, for breaking into his estranged wife's house and assaulting a man with a bat and metal bar in 1987,  he was released on parole.

Charlie Rangel is a genius. His performance yesterday during the start of his ethics trial was so melodramatic that he actually pulled it off.