Opinion: 5/7/2007

• Mental health system failing (Indiana) - Kathleen Bayes, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
• Coming to a neighborhood near you (California) - editorial, Orange County Register
• Preventing the Ministry of Justice causing injustice (UK) - David Pannick, Times Online
• Don't let Utah's jails evolve into discount motel (Utah) - Jay Evenson, Deseret News
• State panel says drug courts work (New Jersey) - Lawrence Aaron, NorthJersey.com
• Hearing for AB 1539 - Sick and Dying Prisoners Needs a Crowd (California) - B. Cayenne Bird, American Chronicle
• America should believe in a second chance (Louisiana) - Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), Louisiana Weekly

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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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