Talk:Michael G. Santos

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A fact from Michael G. Santos appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 January 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Michael G. Santos became the first American prisoner to be released from a maximum security facility?

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Early life[edit]

This biographical article begins when its subject is 23. Surely, he had a life before than, and most likely, it can be discovered. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 13:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Extraordinary claim[edit]

From the lead:

"He is the first U.S. prisoner to be released from a maximum security facility back into society."

This is patently false and easily refuted; see,for example, this article about a man released from a maximum security prison in New York State in 2010.

From the Biography section:

He was "the first and only prisoner in history to gradually earn his way from a maximum security cell block to a fenceless camp".[4]

This statement is more specific than the first, but seems dubious. Is there a better source than a summary article with no corroborative detail?

132.162.170.18 (talk) 16:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Parole[edit]

Santos has mentioned that he'd never used the internet in all his years in prison. Wasn't he ever furloughed? Yogesh Khandke (talk) 16:14, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]