Saratoga Springs -- Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III recently got a thank-you letter from an unusual source.

It was from a man serving a 4- to 8-year sentence in state prison on a cocaine sales conviction, thanking the county prosecutor for holding him accountable for his actions.

"Because he had to sit in prison and think about what he's done, he got his head together," Murphy said. "He not only committed a crime, he ruined a lot of other peoples' lives."

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