When Ciaran Ferry walked out the rusting gates of Northern Ireland’s most notorious jail four years ago, he never expected to see the inside of a prison cell again. Ferry, a member of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army, had served just over a third of his 22-year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder and arms offenses. Along with more than 400 other paramilitary prisoners, the 28-year-old was granted early release from the Maze prison as part of the Good Friday peace accord, the U.S.-brokered political agreement that ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland. Full Story
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