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- Former boxing champ awaits release Spadafora to leave state boot camp Wednesday, March 29, 2006 By Milan Simonich, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Former world lightweight boxing champion Paul Spadafora is a step closer to freedom.

He will "graduate" April 17 from the state prison system's boot camp.

After that, he will be placed in a halfway house, a situation that could allow him to resume his boxing career.

At Quehanna Boot Camp in Clearfield County, Mr.

Spadafora has followed orders and obeyed the rules.

"He hasn't been any problem," said Quehanna spokesman Tom Aaron.

Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A.

Manning sentenced Mr.

Spadafora to 21 to 60 months in prison for shooting his girlfriend in a drunken rage.

But the judge also recommended that the state Department of Corrections place Mr.

Spadafora in its six-month boot camp program, effectively cutting years off his sentence.

Corrections administrators accepted the judge's suggestion, but first mandated that Mr.

Spadafora complete anger-management classes in prison.

In total, Mr.

Spadafora has served seven months in a traditional prison and almost six ...

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...ba href=/drug abuse/a/b will be won in schools.

We agree, but not with the plan of action Walters has put forward.

As we've written before, the administration needs to recognize that education is the silver bullet, the most important thing when it comes to preventing, or lessening, behavior that society frowns upon.

To think otherwise is problematic.

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