News: 5/23/2007

• DOC withdraws request to release illegal immigrants (Oklahoma)
• Prisons chief hails execution team secrecy (Missouri)
• Texas short on guards as lawmakers mull new prisons
• Taxpayer to fork out R5.3bn for new jails (South Africa)
• Mafias Control Ecuador Jails
• Jails crisis as prisoner numbers reach new peak (UK)
• Corrections admits corruption widespread (New Zealand)
• Prisons officers to boycott sports day (Trinidad)
• Prisons department to go hi-tech (Tanzania)
• Prison neighbors rally against sex offender plan (New Jersey)
• New tour delves deeper into life at Alcatraz (California)
• Prison Inmates to Work in Industries (Georgia)