News: 5/23/2007

• DOC withdraws request to release illegal immigrants (Oklahoma)
• Prisons chief hails execution team secrecy (Missouri)
• Texas short on guards as lawmakers mull new prisons
• Taxpayer to fork out R5.3bn for new jails (South Africa)
• Mafias Control Ecuador Jails
• Jails crisis as prisoner numbers reach new peak (UK)
• Corrections admits corruption widespread (New Zealand)
• Prisons officers to boycott sports day (Trinidad)
• Prisons department to go hi-tech (Tanzania)
• Prison neighbors rally against sex offender plan (New Jersey)
• New tour delves deeper into life at Alcatraz (California)
• Prison Inmates to Work in Industries (Georgia)

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News: 5/1/2007 (AM)

• Santa Ana lawmaker contributes to prison reform effort (California)
• Mother sues in death of son in county jail (California)
• 2 say TYC was warned (Texas)
• Huron man has date with death (Ohio)
• State Changes Inmate Tracking System (Massachusetts)
• Legislation would amend release rules to ease jail crowding (Michigan)
• Georgia joins talk on mentally ill inmates
• O'Connor admits Corrections was wrong (New Zealand)
• Pittsford considers siting new prison (Vermont)
• Cornell Completes Purchase of Colorado Women's Facility
• The GEO Group Reports First Quarter 2007 Results
• Shared big jail under study (South Carolina)
• Tampa firm taps rising demand for tracking bracelets (Florida)
• Inmates take swipe at toilet paper cuts (New York)

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News: 4/16/2007 (PM)

• House Bill Would Permit Fewer Inmates At TYC Facilities (Texas)
• Prison Escapee on The Run in Reno and Sparks Area (Nevada)
• Prison guard convicted of smuggling phone to inmate (Georgia)
• Prison employee charged with having sex with inmate (Alabama)
• Warders appear for Krugersdorp inmate deaths (South Africa)
• Rainer warns it could drop backing for Offender Management Bill (UK)
• Ministers plan to let private prisons discipline inmates (UK)
• Telephones in Bangalore Central Jail (India)
• Criminal class (UK)
• Prison considers polygraph tests for new hires (Pennsylvania)
• Hale County residents oppose DOC land sale, call it a 'sham' (Alabama)

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News: 4/15/2007 (Weekend)

• Accusers Recant, but Hopes Still Fade in Sing Sing (New York) registration required
• Woman Held Despite Release Order, Dies (Missouri)
• In the South Bronx, Unlikely Allies Fight a Proposed Jail (New York) registration required
• Solutions sought for sex offenders living under bridge (Florida)
• Bill to Allow Early Release of Nevada Inmates Doomed by Amendment (Nevada)
• Texas prison guard shortage raises alarm
• Crowded prisons spawn debates over reforms, housing options (Oklahoma)
• Prison plan recommends new classification system (Iowa)
• Last of Wyoming's women inmates back in state (Wyoming)
• Maine eyes out-of-state prison (Maine)
• G'bad prison turns into battlefield (India)
• No Need To Isolate Hep B Inmate: Hepatitis Foundation (New Zealand)
• Overcrowding crisis to rock Ulster prisons as sex beasts lose remission (UK)
• Ghanaian Prisons now 'Crime factories'
• New South Wales blames prison population on tougher laws, longer sentences (Australia)
• Jail rocks for high-profile inmates (India)
• Driving is ex-inmates' key to jobs (Wisconsin)
• Inmates' menu critique: Too light, send it back (Georgia)

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News: 4/12/2007 (1)

• Man Executed in Slaying of Girl (Texas)
• Wrongfully Convicted Men Win Settlement (Illinois)
• Bill overhauling TYC is endorsed (Texas)
• Bills to keep misdemeanor offenders out of Texas juvenile prisons
• Inside youth prisons, scores of female guards violated boys (Texas)
• Behavior didn't trigger red flags (Utah)
• Correction officer sentenced for heroin smuggling (New York)
• Inmate mistakenly released by Metro Corrections (Kentucky)
• Escapee recaptured after 23 years (Alabama)
• Escapee captured in Garden City (Indiana)
• Sheriff vows to punish rogue Georgia officials (Georgia)

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News: 4/9/07

• Inmate dies after hanging (Ohio)
• State's prisons endure wave of deadly violence (Georgia)
• Newspaper finds flaws in health care for juveniles at TCY prisons (Texas)
• Leaders grapple with whether to close some TYC prisons in overhaul (Texas)
• Probation funds can help relieve crisis in prisons (California)
• Neighbor's a real pain for tiny Ione (California)
• Diversion program finding some success (Michigan)
• Corrections expands HIV/AIDS re-entry program to all inmates (Alabama)
• New southwest Virginia prison to open by fall
• Prison Employee May Sue Over Random Vehicle Searches (Nebraska)
• Prison museum board discusses education (Kansas)
• Guards Allowed Inmate Riot As Few Staff (New Zealand)
• Bishop Deplores Inhuman Conditions in Prisons (Kenya)
• Phoning Home: High Cost Calls Hinder Prisoner Rehabilitation - opinion

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News: 4/8/2007

• Inmate Joins State, Argues for Execution (California)
• Japan's way of judicial killing - Three part series on capital punishment in Japan
• One who has lived to tell the tale - Part two
• 'Killing people won't cut crime; there's no data to prove this' - Part three
• Inmate found hanging in his cell (Ohio)
• Anderson County ponders jail situation (South Carolina)
• County one of 42 looking at new jails (Minnesota)
• Warden hopes state will help build prison (Georgia)
• Call to cut UK prison population
• Home Office rejig a 'missed opportunity' (UK)

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