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Ex-prisoner trades solitary freedom for a home behind bars

At age 70, Michael J. Harris decided to go back to the cheeriest home he had ever known and spend whatever time he had left among old friends and familiar surroundings. What made the story banner news 85 years ago was that the place for which the Milwaukee man pined was the state penitentiary in Waupun, where he had served 32 years -- from 1884-1916 -- of a life sentence for killing a man with an ax.