News: 5/16/2007

• New law aims to create balance in prison-release placement (Washington)
• Escapes prompt review of rules (Michigan)
• Feds looking to put prisoners in understaffed regional jails (Tennesee)
• Fresh probe into Shaik's 'preferential treatment' (South Africa)
• Booth to head new prisons commission (UK)
• Province to expand prisons (Canada)
• Police cells still used as jails (UK)
• Nigeria frees elderly prisoners before power shift (Nigeria)
• State Contracts to Put Inmates in Two Bridges (Nebraska)
• Revised jail budget tops $11 million mark (Kansas)
• Bill allowing early release of county inmates progresses (Michigan)