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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:
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Early life
editThis 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)
Extraordinary claim
editFrom 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?
Parole
editSantos 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)