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According to police in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 38-year-old Karen Madden confessed earlier this year to stealing $550,000 worth of jewelry and handbags from the home of her boss, Judy Hample, who is chancellor of the state’s university system. Hample testified at a July hearing that Madden, whose trial is to begin this week, had called to apologize after her arrest and subsequent firing and went on to ask, “I hope you and I can still be friends and I would like to use you–can I use you as a reference, just for the work part?”
Britain’s Home Office agreed in November to settle a lawsuit by paying about $7,500 to each of 197 current and former inmates who had been addicted to heroin or other opiates at the time they entered prison. The inmates argued that their human rights were violated when their access to drugs was quickly cut off, forcing them to go cold turkey.
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