News: 4/16/2007 (AM)

• Texas Prisons Have High Percentage of Unfilled Guard Jobs
• Texas Youth Commission Prisons Under Reported Abuse
• Guard pact could bedevil prison-relief negotiations (California)
• Governor to present pact offer to state prison guards (California)
• No end for jammed prisons (Michigan)
• Prison guards at jeopardy as overcrowding worsens (Maine)
• Hope Held Out for Death Row Inmates (Nigeria)
• Two men hijack helicopter to break man out of prison (Belgium)
• Drugs, bribe offers, staff in fear ... life at Rye Hill jail (UK)
• Call for sentencing policy review (UK)
• Tories in vow for tougher sentencing (UK)
• Fewer reports of sexual abuse in prisons, says (Jamaica)
• Athens on inmate transfers to home countries (Greece)
• Conditions vary widely for U.S. prisoners in Japan
• Everyday Heroes (North Carolina)
• Painting in prison (District of Columbia)