News: 5/6/2007 (Weekend)

• Former TYC official faced allegations of misconduct years earlier (Texas)
• Judge Denies Health Plan for Inmates (Michigan)
• Jury Awards Family Of Dead Inmate $2.75 Million (Michigan)
• County jails seen as dangerously crowded (Massachusetts)
• Ways and Means approves emergency prison funding (Nevada)
• Mentally ill filling the jails (New Hampshire)
• Wyoming struggles with understaffed prison
• E. Idaho women inmates disciplined for drug plot
• I know what ails jails, says CM (India)
• Portfolio committee to visit West Cape prisons (South Africa)
• Britain mulls early release for prisoners
• Falconer denies reports of early release for thousands of prisoners (UK)
• TT prisons in bad state (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Bihar’s old, ailing jailbirds to be set free (India)
• BuCor sends more security men to Davao penal farm (Phillipines)
• Jail inmates to perform Tagore’s Tasher Desh (India)
• Corrections officials eye new location for proposed prison (Virginia)
• Idaho Prison Workers Recognized