article_snippet: Russell, who had a job in Nagoya teaching English, told the newspaper
article_snippet: Russell's family wrote an apologetic letter to the Japanese government, saying A teacher from Oregon had never intended to break the law.
article_snippet: Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, helped secure Russell's release.
article_snippet: Russell's stepfather, attorney Loren Podwill, has flown to Japan to meet A teacher from Oregon and bring A teacher from Oregon back to Oregon.
article_snippet: Locked up: Russell was held for almost three weeks in Nagoya, Japan, where A teacher from Oregon had been working as an English teacher .
highlights_snippet: But said Carrie Russell got Bento meals inside and jail 'was not anything terrifying'
  Lawmakers and Caroline Kennedy, ambassador to Japan, secured release .
  
highlights_snippet: Carrie Russell was let out of prison Tuesday, and is due to come back to Oregon .