Prison Band

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  US Court Stays Man's Execution To Allow For Buddhist Advisor

  An inmate who was part of a murderous band of prison escapees dubbed the "Texas 7" won a reprieve from his death sentence on Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state to allow a Buddhist spiritual adviser to accompany him to the execution chamber.

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  Lucknow Central Preview: Farhan Akhtar Is Ready With A Prison Break Manual

  Lucknow Central is not one-of-its-kind but that should not bother cine-goers

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  Lucknow Central Vs Qaidi Band: The Curious Case Of 2 Band Baaja Azaadi Films

  The similarity between Nikkhil Advani's Lucknow Central and Aditya Chopra's Qaidi Band is uncanny.

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  Backstreet Boys Founder Lou Pearlman Dies in Prison At 62

  Inspired by the success of the boy band New Kids on the Block, Mr Pearlman recruited a group of unknowns to form the Backstreet Boys, which gained massive popularity in 1996, becoming one of the bestselling boy bands of all time

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  Murderer On Vocals: Malawi Prison Band Vies For Grammy Glory

  On vocals: convicted murderer Elias Chimenya, on bass guitar: burglar Stefano Nyerenda, and prison guard Thomas Binamo is one of the band's songwriters.

• Hard rockers demand $666,000 after Guantanamo claims

  A Canadian hard-rock band says it sent the Pentagon a $666,000 bill after a former Guantanamo Bay guard alleged that the US military used their music to torture detainees.

• Mikhail Khodorkovsky starts life as a free man in Germany

  Russia's most famous prisoner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, began life as a free man in Germany on Saturday after his surprise pardon by President Vladimir Putin.

• Pussy Riot protester in single cell after tensions with inmates

  Jailed Pussy Riot punk protester Maria Alyokhina has been moved to a single cell at her own request because of tensions with fellow prisoners, Russia's federal penitentiary service said on Friday.

• Pussy Riot 'risk lives' in Soviet-style prisons

  Two women from punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to a lack of medicine and no hot water amid sub-zero winter temperatures, according to a recently released band member.

• Pussy Riot band members sent to remote prison camps

  Two female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons far from Moscow despite requesting to serve out their terms in the capital, a lawyer said on Monday.

• Russia frees one Pussy Riot member, keeps two in jail

  A Russian appeals court Wednesday ordered the release of one member of anti-Vladimir Putin punk band Pussy Riot after giving her a suspended term but ordered two others serve two years in a prison camp.

• No regrets despite prison sentence: Pussy Riot

  Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova says she regrets nothing about the band's anti-government performance in a cathedral that got them convicted of hooliganism and sentenced to two years behind bars.

• Russian Orthodox church forgives feminist rock band

  Two top clerics in the Russian Orthodox Church have said that it has forgiven the members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot who were convicted of hooliganism and sent to prison for briefly taking over a cathedral in a raucous prayer for deliverance from Vladimir Putin.