News: 4/4/2007

• 9 tied to prison gang are charged in crimes (Texas)
• Privately run prison had problems before escape (Ohio)
• Measure would qualify about 1,600 Nevada prisoners for release
• State corrections official tours crammed CIM (California)
• Safford Complex, other Arizona prisons, 'overflowing' (Arizona)
• Crowding puts pressure on prison staff (Maine)
• More Female Prisoners Taxing Local Prisons (Michigan)
• Peterborough Prison is two, and growing up fast (UK)
• Miami judge to study mental health (Florida)
• Judge ends oversight of Jackson County jail (Missouri)
• Campbell County's jail expansion almost complete (Kentucky)
• Cooling equipment ordered for Jackson-area prisons (Michigan)
• New corrections officers graduate from academy (New Jersey)
• Levin: Prisons don't hold solution to drug problems (Texas) - editorial