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Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her seven children, was denied release from prison

Fritzl was transferred last year from a special prison unit to a normal unit

Fritzl's attorney said her client has dementia and would be better served at a dementia center

The Austrian man who held his daughter captive in his basement and had seven children with her over the course of 24 years has been denied release.

Josef Fritzl, 90, is serving a life sentence after his 2009 conviction for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and negligent homicide for the death of one of his infant children, Reuters previously reported.

After he spent 15 years in a prison unit for the criminally insane, Fritzl was moved to a normal prison in

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