Thursday, August 16, 2012

LONGEST SERVING FEMALE PRISONER RELEASED

For the past 49 years, Betty Smithey has woken up in a prison cell, the nation's longest serving female inmate. But on Aug 14 she was waking up a free woman.
Smithey, now 69, was granted parole by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency on Monday. She was released from the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, walking with a cane.

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