MONROVIA, Sept. 7 -- Eleven days after she was led into Monrovia Central Prison, Jewel Howard-Taylor went home on Thursday - but not to freedom. Under an order signed by Criminal Court "C" Judge Ousman F. Feika, the woman who once stood a heartbeat from the Liberian presidency now lives under a regime nearly as controlled as the one she left. A single-family caregiver has been designated to look after her. Police are posted at the gate around the clock. A visitor's log, modeled on the one the Bureau of Corrections keeps at the Central Prison, tracks everyone who comes and goes. She cannot step outside the compound on Tubman Boulevard in Sinkor without the court's advance approval - and even then, only for a hospital appointment.

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