News: 5/15/2007

• State proposes new lethal injection procedures (California)
• Medical Contracting Company Loses Suit In Death Of Inmate (Florida)
• Youth prisons targeted (California)
• Sex scandal between deputies, prisoners prompted review (Utah)
• Overcrowding impedes prison health care reforms, receiver says (California)
• Prison population holding around 98% (Oklahoma)
• 'Purgatory' well-managed, audit finds (Utah)
• Responding to ACLU Demands, California Prisons Allow Same-Sex Access to Family Visitation
• Kept in the dark (India)
• CCA finishing 3rd prison in Eloy (Arizona)
• Victim Notification System in Indiana
• Group looking for new uses for closed prison (Ohio)
• New state program aims at slowing prison system's revolving door (Arizona)
• Corrections officials to accept bid for state prison land (Alabama)

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News: 5/11/2007 (PM)

• Schwarzenegger names experts to begin $7.8 billion prison reform (California)
• Warrant Issued For Woman In Connection With Inmate's Escape (New Hampshire)
• Jury: Sheriff, County Not Liable In Inmate's Death (Arizona)
• Shareholder proposal on CCA political donation disclosure fails
• New jail to be built next to existing one: minister (Canada)
• Cameroon: Our Prisons Should Be Reformatory Centres
• Program gives horses, inmates second chance (Indiana)
• Show-and-tell at the jail (Wisconsin)
• Prison dental hygiene (Texas)
• Exclusive Interview with a Corrections Officer at a Jail Similarto one that Paris Hilton will be in (part 2) (California)

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News: 5/10/2007 (PM)

• Az prisons chief looks warily at Indiana riot probe (Arizona)
• Ambitious plan for California's prisons released today
• Reporters subpoenaed in Fla. execution
• Judge concerned about state's handling of death penalty case (Wyoming)
• $145K for jail suicide (Florida)
• Unauthorized cell phones in Nevada prisons now a crime
• Jail administrator answers allegations made by inmate (Oklahoma)
• City-County Jail has generated $3.5 million since '02: Maier (Illinois)
• New Otago Corrections Facility opens (New Zealand)
• Obasanjo Seeks Reform for Prison, Police, Judiciary (Nigeria)
• Shocking disclosure at Prison Inquiry (Barbados)
• Prison service ruled out of running Scotland's new jail
• Numbers Crunchers: Data shows programs designed to keep inmates on right path working (Massachusetts)
• County wants state parolees out of Dutchess jail (New York)
• Florida Jail Guard Facing Felony Bribery Charges

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News: 5/8/2007 (AM)

• Death Chamber: Double The Cost (California)
• TYC reform legislation moves to conference committee (Texas)
• A new approach to help young offenders (California) - part 2
• Assembly set to vote on bills affecting the hiring of felons (Wisconsin)
• Prison warden resigns (Pennsylvania)
• Home Office prepares for split (UK)
• Man 'with brain' gets chance to use it (New Zealand)
• Archive Will Document Life In NI Prisons (UK)
• Commissioners hear report about STAR program court (Texas)
• Cornell 'positioned for growth' after flat quarter
• Consultant: Lee jail population increased in 2006 (Florida)
• On Navajo Nation, dwindling jail space, poor conditions prompt calls for change
• Township: Prison population of 2000 should not be expanded (Pennsylvania)
• IRCC one of two prisons which will no longer be served by ICC teachers (Illinois)
• Candidates share views on alternative sentencing (Kentucky)
• Playboy spread reignites Pennsylvania prison debate
• How bad is jail? See for yourself (Wisconsin)
• Interview with a Corrections Officer at a Jail Similar to Where Paris Hilton Will Do Time (California)

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April-May prisoner free exercise cases

Professor Howard Friedman has posted his always useful digest of recent prisoner free exercise cases.

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News: 5/4/2007 (AM)

• High court stays scheduled Tuesday execution of Moore (Nebraska)
• Alabama inmate executed
• Cornell Companies (CRN) Announces Contract Award From Arizona Department of Corrections
• Gem County jailers head to District Court (Idaho)
• ICC will stop offering classes to two prisons (Illinois)
• Haiti: Prison Reform and the Rule of Law
• Watchdog criticizes ailing jails (Greece)
• Prisons Officers send SOS (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Rare illness drove tab to $5.1 million (Ohio)
• OC patients to get free surgeries (California)
• Prison bill moves to next House vote (Colorado)
• Small-time recidivists, big costs (North Carolina)
• Charleston facility ready to take more inmates (Maine)
• Measure would affect prison stays (Oregon)
• Sheriff Reverses ICE Opposition (Virginia)
• Jail chief out; sheriff finds replacement (Washington)

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News: 5/2/2007 (AM)

• A plea for help for Coalinga prison (California)
• Inmate who had seizures dies in lockup (Illinois)
• Short notice triggered riot (Indiana)
• Bill to alleviate local jail overcrowding clears House (Texas)
• State drops surgeon used for lethal injection (Missouri)
• Wanted: Indispensable, Disposable Workers (Colorado)
• Teen sex offender bill goes to governor’s desk (Arizona)
• Sweeney says sex offenders are coming to South Woods (New Jersey)
• Board named to consider sex offender residency in Green Bay (Wisconsin)
• Jails awash with drugs, says Opposition (Australia)
• Guards back in jail (Canada)
• McDowell orders inquiry into prisoner's call to radio show (Ireland)
• Women's prison will get day in court (Canada)
• Package lobbed over wall ignited jailhouse melee (Canada)
• Prisoners Could Get More Credit for Good Behavior (Kansas)
• Guards armed with new riot gear (Pennsylvania)
• Jail expansion still top council priority (South Carolina)
• Prison closer to getting water (Mississippi)
• Sing Sing, dance, dance (New York)

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Opinion: 4/28/2007 (Weekend)

• Spending more cash on California prisons not enough - editorial, San Jose Mercury News
• SJ will take no prisoners (California) - Michael Fitzgerald, Stockton Record
• Roundup on Prison Deal (California) - Capitol Basement
• Prisons: a costly growth industry (Arizona) - editorial, Tuscon Citizen
• Prisons and privatization (Indiana) - editorial, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
• It's only fair: Az inmates should be in Az prisons - editorial, Tuscon Citizen

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News: 4/26/20007 (AM)

• Deal reached for 53K more prison beds (California)
• Lawsuits drive prison operations in California
• Company Must Reimburse Indiana for Riot Costs
• Prison riot erupts (Indiana)
• DOC officials sent to Indiana to help with riot investigation (Arizona)
• Drug courts, stronger probation clears Texas House
• Bill to close youth prisons gaining attention, criticism (California)
• South Woods State Prison investigates employee activities (New Jersey)
• National claims 'culture of denial' in prisons (New Zealand)
• Suicide 'simple' in SA jails (Australia)
• Superbugs hit prisons (Canada)
• Prison Watchdog Unlikely to be Effective (UK)
• Crime figures show need to focus on what works (UK)
• 3 indictments issued in prison smuggling case (Oregon)
• Woman guilty of posing as lawyer to enter prison (Maryland)
• Lawmakers delay prison construction, Hoeven goes along (North Dakota)
• Miami Correctional Facility honored (Indiana)

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News: 4/23/2007 (PM)

• For LA AIDS group prison health is public health (California)
• Diversions Continue Steady Advance (Texas)
• 2 courts deny Ohio killer's request to delay execution
• Bruning will not intervene in execution (Nebraska)
• Mental hospitals vie with prisons for medical staffs (California)
• Where should sex offenders live? (Florida)
• Ex-State Prisons Chief To Be Sentenced For Taking Kickbacks (Florida)
• Former Prisoners Challenge the Legacy of Torture in Chicago Jails (Illinois)
• Prisoner 'segregation' misunderstood - O'Connor (New Zealand)
• Inmates still getting cell phones (New Zealand)
• 2835 Pakistanis in Saudi jails, NA told
• Crime Victims Honored at Ceremony at Capitol (Arizona)
• Officials searching for missing ACI inmate (Rhode Island)
• Good guidelines in the works from the USSC (US Federal)
• South Idaho commissioners consider jail options

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News: 4/19/2007 (PM)

• Bill ending life without parole for young killers advances (California)
• Senate approves bill to overhaul troubled TYC (Texas)
• Convicts in court fight for right to vote (UK)
• Jail security to be spruced up (Kenya)
• Privatization guru to review federal prison system (Canada)
• Plans under way for £100m prison in Cambridgeshire (UK)
• Call For Changes To Ensure Prisoner Safety (New Zealand)
• Community Corrections, Meth Facility To Be Open (Colorado)
• Some police departments upset with fee increase at county jails (Arizona)

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News: 4/13/2007 (PM)

• State builds new death chamber: Lawmakers accuse governor of hiding San Quentin Project (California)
• Judges given leeway to assess mental function (California)
• Denying bail to illegal immigrants could strain jails (Arizona)
• California settles First Amendment lawsuit with Prison Legal News
• Gregg County Jailer Faces Possessing Prohibited Substances Charge (Texas)
• Corrections officer charged with giving inmate a hand cuff key (New Jersey)
• NWFP govt asked to implement Borstal Act (Pakistan)
• The Weaknesses of Inmates' Rehabilitation System (Botswana)
• Judge won't bite on inmates' mosquito lawsuit (Colorado)

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News: 4/11/2007 (2)

• Report on prison reforms recommends drastic changes (India)
• Hundreds turn out to funeral of prison death father (UK)
• Ex-prison boss packs his bags (South Africa)
• Indonesian Govt To Open Six More Prisons In 2007 (Indonesia)
• Council sponsors prison employment (Italy)
• Jails committee will make recommendation to supervisors (Arizona)
• Fillmore struggles with decision about new jail (Minnesota)
• 6W Community Corrections program seeks funding increase (Minnesota)
• Inmates speak to students (Louisiana)
• 'Reverend Shredder' dies in Sutherlin (Oregon)
• Wardens gather in Pittsburgh for training conference (Pennsylvania)
• Essex County Jail in Lewis to open June 1, maybe (New York)
• Jail delay cost Ulster County nearly $6 million (New York)
• Reduce roadblocks for prisoners (New York) - editorial
• Without drug treatment programs, prisons are just inmate warehouses (Wisconsin) - opinion
• Sentencing is linchpin on prisons (California) - opinion
• Austria’s Five-Star Prison - blog post

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News: 4/11/2007 (1)

• 2 Former Youth Prison Officials Arrested (Texas)
• Corrections officer arrested on drug charges (Massachusetts)
• State heads towards first execution since 2000 (Arizona)
• Judge sets August trial for detained immigrant children case (US)
• Child molester found dead in prison cell (Indiana)
• State's top juvenile corrections official didn’t visit Evins facility (Texas)
• Impressive Innocence Lineup Testifies at Senate Criminal Justice Committee (Texas)
• TYC Fixes Would Close 3 Units (Texas)
• Alien inmates in Nevada Prisons to be deported
• Prison plan will flood jails, sheriff warns supervisors (California)
• Attempted murder suspect accidentally released (Kentucky)
• Orange corrections officers allege racial bias, unfair pay (Florida)
• Prisons too full to take death driver (UK)
• Prisoners 40pc more likely than others to carry Hep C: study (Australia)
• Parole housing crisis (Australia)
• Gonzalez wants country's jails decongested (Phillipines)

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News: 4/4/2007

• 9 tied to prison gang are charged in crimes (Texas)
• Privately run prison had problems before escape (Ohio)
• Measure would qualify about 1,600 Nevada prisoners for release
• State corrections official tours crammed CIM (California)
• Safford Complex, other Arizona prisons, 'overflowing' (Arizona)
• Crowding puts pressure on prison staff (Maine)
• More Female Prisoners Taxing Local Prisons (Michigan)
• Peterborough Prison is two, and growing up fast (UK)
• Miami judge to study mental health (Florida)
• Judge ends oversight of Jackson County jail (Missouri)
• Campbell County's jail expansion almost complete (Kentucky)
• Cooling equipment ordered for Jackson-area prisons (Michigan)
• New corrections officers graduate from academy (New Jersey)
• Levin: Prisons don't hold solution to drug problems (Texas) - editorial

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News: 4/3/2007

• Supreme Court: prisons liable for lewd inmates (California)
• Dallas County jail OT still running into millions (Texas)
• 'They broke his jaw, busted his eye' (Texas)
• Destructive Washington County Jail inmate requires special jail cell (Wisconsin)
• To Help Rikers, City Wants More Prisoners in Brooklyn (New York)
• Knox County Jail detainee threatens lawsuit over injuries (Maine)
• Additional award in inmate death (Arizona)
• California EMS crews at greater risk on prison calls
• Prisoners continue hunger strike in Gobustan jail (Azerbaijan)
• More services needed at San Mateo County jail, report says (California)
• Convict on the run from "open prison" (UK)
• Inmate Awarded $20,000 for Harsh Conditions (Russia)
• Alcohol Treatment and Rehab > Lack Of Substance Abuse Treatment Options For Offenders
• Bronson unsure about felons' rights (Florida)
• Former Pennsylvania prison guard accused of kissing inmate
• Prison staff vacancies in Wyoming called danger
• Regional jail project moving on (Mississippi)
• Getting screwed at the school for crime (Australia) - opinion piece by former inmate
• Commissioner of Correction pledges help on local issues (Maryland) - local editorial
• Basic humanity (Pennsylvania) - editorial

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