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Papini was released to community confinement overseen by the residential reentry management field office in Sacramento.Sherri Papini, the California woman who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying about it to the FBI, was released from federal prison to community confinement. Papini, 41, was released last week, according to NBC affiliate KCRA of Sacramento. Online jail records show that she will be at a location overseen by the residential reentry management field office in Sacramento. NBC News reached out to the office and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Papini was sentenced to 18 months in prison in September...

The California mom-of-two who was discovered “bound with restraints” on the side of the road last Thanksgiving can be seen unshackled and running toward safety just minutes earlier in new video released Tuesday. Papini, who had been missing for 22 days, was discovered on the ramp of Interstate 5 by a passing motorist. She was beaten, bruised, and “bound with chains,” multiple reports said at the time. The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said last month that they found numerous inconsistencies in Papini’s account.

REDDING, Calif. -- The husband of a Northern California woman found bound along the side of a road three weeks after vanishing says the woman was “branded,” burned, had “chain marks” and her hair cut off and weighed only 87 pounds after her rescue. Keith Papini said in a statement released to Good Morning America that investigators told him to “brace himself” before he was re-united with his wife at a hospital Thanksgiving Day because of her battered condition. Investigators say Sherri Papini, 34, was abducted Nov. 2 after going for a jog near Redding. Her husband told Good Morning...

Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman who was missing for three weeks, was found on the side of a road Thursday chained and "heavily battered," according to police dispatch logs.