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Women convicted of killing their husbands are freed from prison under new Missouri law

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Women convicted of killing their husbands are freed from prison under new Missouri law AP October 15, 2010 Two women who spent more than 30 years in Missouri prisons for killing their abusive husbands were released Friday after their lawyer argued that a recent law made them eligible for parole. Carlene Borden, 65, and 55-year-old Vicky Williams won their freedom in part because of a 2007 law that provides for battered women who kill their spouses. To be eligible for parole under the new law, the women had to have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms without the possibility of parole and must have served at least 15 years and met other criteria. Amy Lorenz-Moser, an attorney who represents both women, said she had breakfast with Borden on Friday morning after Borden was released from prison in Vandalia...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 16, 2010 (boomark / email).