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 (AM)

• Prison plan takes a beating (California) - registration required
• Bronx Protests Against Proposed Jail (New York)
• Brooklyn House of Detention Could be Much Bigger (New York)
• Oregon bill would limit early release program
• Committee passes bill speeding inmate paroles (Nevada)
• Police hunt arsonist let out of prison by accident (UK)
• Corrections Officer Dismissed (New Zealand)
• Youth prison getting better, says report (UK)
• PIL seeks facilities for male prisoners (India)
• Corrections board to take up draft prison recommendations (Iowa)
• Disenfranchisement News - 4/12/2007
• Oshkosh begins researching sex offender ordinance (Wisconsin)
• "Prison City" reflects on Death Penalty (Texas) - new book
• Surviving family violence (Texas)

Hat tip to Corrections Connection on a couple of these stories.

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Opinion: 4/13/2007

• Black Market In Tobacco Makes Prisons More Violent (California) - commentary by inmate
• Youth Offenders (Texas) - Lufkin Daily News
• Holding the state hostage (California) - Monterey County Herald
• CPPP tells a tale of two prison budgets (Texas) - Grits for Breakfast
• Disenfranchising Ex-Felons (Florida)
• Without rehab for prisoners, what goes in comes back out (Austraia) - Sydney Morning Herald

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News: 4/10/2007

• Judge Urges 13th Dallas DNA Exoneration (Texas)
• Study: Most Alaska felons re-offend
• Assembly bill wants federal government to fund imprisoned illegal immigrants (California)
• Corrections denies claims by prison guards (New Zealand)
• 100 escape from Indonesian jail
• Disease outbreak taking a toll in city prisons (Indonesia)
• Prisons of Passion (US)
• Commission, sheriff at odds over county jail (New Mexico)
• Governors call for fewer jailings, not more jails (UK)
• Corrections construction is endorsed (North Dakota)
• Jail crowding difficult to fix (West Virginia)
• Danville Correctional Center jobs reportedly won't be cut (Illinois)
• Commissioners Want To Save On Water At Jail (Ohio)
• State politicians should have handled prison problems (California) - editorial
• An opportunity to expand civil rights - opinion
• Do more to hasten reforms in prisons (Kenya) - editorial

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News: 4/5/2007 (1)

• Two LA men plead guilty in Oregon prison food case
• Police seek ex-TYC guard accused of having sex with youth (Texas)
• ACLU, corrections officials may settle complaint (Mississippi)
• Company says it was threatened by California prison receiver
• Prison Guards Cool On State's Contract Offer (California)
• Ely State Prison doc was fired because he wouldn't quit outside hospital work (Nevada)
• Giving vote to Florida's ex-felons no guarantee for Democrats
• Program encouraging prisoner organ donation approved (South Carolina)
• State review: Jail no better (Texas)
• Iowa prisons need $180M in improvements — consultants say
• State begging for corrections workers (Washington)

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