News: 5/17/2007

• Inside an Execution Chamber: A Virtual Tour of California's Future Death Row
• Judge gets Schwarzenegger's plan to fix prison overcrowding (California)
• Jail tax plan gets a chilly reception (Ohio)
• New prisons boss cites post-audit changes - wants $80 million for expansion (Utah)
• Police Investigating Second Inmate Death In Month (Florida)
• Overcrowded jails on agenda (Georgia)
• UN urges Liberia to outlaw trials by ordeal
• Advocates fight for prisoners' phone rights (Canada)
• Baffin inmates stressed by overcrowding: lawyer (Canada)
• Reducing re-offending through skills and jobs - Hope (UK)
• CIPD finds employers willing to recruit ex-offenders (UK)
• Governor approves expanded prison phone service (Texas)
• Maryland prisons chief leaves after less than a year in office
• Price tag to close juvenile center set at nearly $1M (Minnesota)
• HMP to host Correctional Summit (Bahamas)
• Camden County jail over budget (Florida)
• Community corrections beefs up home-monitoring systems (Alabama)