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11-10-2006, 05:47 AM
Gooden Released From Prison
AP - 11/09 - 11:06 AM EST
Former pitcher Dwight Gooden was released from prison Thursday after finishing a sentence for violating his probation by using cocaine.
The 41-year-old Gooden walked out of the Gainesville Correctional Institution about 8:45 a.m. and will not be on probation, Corrections Department spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said.
With credit for time served in jail and in a secure drug treatment facility, Gooden's total prison time was about seven months. He had been sentenced to a year and a day.
AP - 11/09 - 11:06 AM EST
Former pitcher Dwight Gooden was released from prison Thursday after finishing a sentence for violating his probation by using cocaine.
The 41-year-old Gooden walked out of the Gainesville Correctional Institution about 8:45 a.m. and will not be on probation, Corrections Department spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said.
With credit for time served in jail and in a secure drug treatment facility, Gooden's total prison time was about seven months. He had been sentenced to a year and a day.