News: 5/22/2007

• In California, prisons' budget to trump colleges'
• Locked Up and Ailing (California)
• Executioners need identity shielded, state says (Missouri)
• Shortage of corrections officers kills jail-space deal (Washington)
• Lack of medical bills dogs prisons (Ohio)
• Jails paying more for inmates' medical expenses (Indiana)
• Corrections' attitude to bribes concerning (New Zealand)
• Not my job to build prisons, says Balfour (UK)
• ‘Speed up new prisons’ (South Africa)
• Prisoner sex ban in WA jails (Australia)
• Trinidad prisons officers on work to rule (Trinidad and Tobago)
• All change at Department of Corrections (New Zealand)
• Prisons to undertake new role (Tanzania)
• A tale of 2 jails, and both unwanted (Pennsylvania)