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The Federal Bureau of Prisons has extended the prison term of former Mayor Bill Campbell of Atlanta, a spokeswoman confirmed Friday, a week after news reports questioned his participation in an early release drug treatment program. Lawyers for Mr. Campbell, who was convicted of tax evasion, told the judge who sentenced him in 2006 that their client had ''no health or substance abuse problems.'' Nonetheless, prison officials admitted him to a wait-listed drug treatment program, which allowed him to shave more than three months off his 30-month sentence. His sentence was also reduced by four additional months for good behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Genarlow Wilson, an African American convicted as a teenager for having consensual sex with a fellow teenager, has been released after spending two years in jail. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in favor of Wilson's release calling his ten year prison sentence grossly disproportionate to the crime. Critics have accused Wilson's prosecutors as being racially motivated for using a law meant to keep child molesters behind bars to curb teenage sexual activity.

The article reports that prosecutor Robert E. Owens has been criticized by Georgia, Atlanta's attorney general Troy King for arguing that a man on death row should not be executed. Marcus Presley and LaSamuel Gamble were convicted of double murders wherein Gamble pulled the trigger. As Gamble's death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment as he was below 18 at the time of the murders, Owens has argued that Presley's sentence should also be changed to life imprisonment.

The article reports on the court order over the prison sentence of sex crime convict Genarlow Wilson in Atlanta, Georgia. On June 11, 2007, a judge ordered Wilson's release. Wilson is serving 10-year prison sentence without parole for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he himself was 17. But soon after the order, Georgia's attorney general, Thurbert E. Baker, said that he would appeal the order in the state supreme court.

The article reports that the bill aimed to help a student athlete Genarlow Wilson of Atlanta, Georgia, may face trouble in the Georgia General Assembly. Wilson is serving a 10-year prison sentence for committing a sex crime or oral sex with a 15-year old classmate. The bill was sponsored by senator Emanuel D. Jones.