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: 5/22/2007

• 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)

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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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News: 4/27/2007 (AM)

• Miami Inmate's Treatment Questioned (Florida)
• Police say 16 molesters are staying at Garden Grove motels (California)
• Legislature quickly OKs prison plan: Governor expected to sign measure (California)
• Waiting game for SJ prisons (California)
• Geo loses California contract
• Survey shows that five inmates die every day. (Kenya)
• Prisons boss sets up committee to fast- track reforms (Nigeria)
• Freed offenders fail drug tests (Australia)
• Greece prison protest ends
• Jailbirds coughing up less for smokes (Australia)
• 2 inmates escape from Cocke Co. Jail (Tennessee)
• Sheriff to pay $500000 to settle jail suit (Florida)
• Author foresees end of capital punishment (Missouri)
• Prison to Limit Inmates Toilet Paper (Kansas)

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News: 4/25/2007

• Inmate imports suspended by New Castle riot (Indiana)
• Bill to close youth prisons passes committee (California)
• High Court Tosses 3 Death Sentences (Texas)
• Convicted killer of Amarillo couple set to die Thursday (Texas)
• TYC corrections officer arrested on sex charge (Texas)
• No election on possible private prison in Adams Co. (Missouri)
• Vermont prison overhaul proposed
• ACLU asks judge to end LA jail overcrowding (California)
• Crowding brings county jails to a boil (California)
• Young people remanded to adult prisons as Feltham pressures rise (UK)
• Prison guard fights second assault charge (New Zealand)
• Corrections Canada considers halfway house bid
• Sedgwick Co. officials find jail food revolting (Kansas)
• Funding tight at jail (Colorado)
• Downtown jail nixed (Minnesota)
• Local group tours Wapello Co. jail (Indiana)
• This Prison Dentist Yanked More Than a Molar (Washington)

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News: 4/19/07 (AM)

• FBI eyeing inmates' suit in beatings, lawyer says (Illinois)
• 2 deaths reported at prison in Licking (Missouri)
• Ex-prison guard gets 20 years for inmate rape (New Hampshire)
• Chambers: State didn't follow law on execution (Nebraska)
• Prison reform poised for OK (Washington)
• Government stalls on proposal to put young criminals in adult prisons (UK)
• Prisons Crisis - How Inmates DiedAt Kuje (Nigeria)
• Experts condemn prison conditions (Switzerland)
• More jails will not solve overcrowding crisis, warns Woolf (UK)
• Prisons' boss reveals de-congestion plans (Botswana)
• Prisons chief Dennehy leaving post (Massachusetts)
• Another Local Prison Closing (Michigan)
• Medical Bills Mount for County Jails (Nebraska)
• New corrections officers graduate from academy (New Jersey)
• Books Through Bars (Connecticut)

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News: 4/18/2007 (AM)

• Prison overcrowding poses safety problems (Maine)
• New Standards for City’s Jails Are Debated (New York)
• Bill ending life without parole for young killers advances (California)
• Missouri Department of Corrections disputes sex harassment claims
• Only nets can prevent escapes (Belgium)
• Punjab prisons 171 percent overcrowded (India)
• New law to protect kids against adults (South Africa)
• Russian Women Serving Sentence in Prisons of United Arab Emirates learning Quran (Russia)
• Pike Co. voters say no to prison (Tennesee)
• Navajo council approves emergency appropriation for Chinle jail (New Mexico)
• Justice: Prison reform needs urgent (Nevada)
• Jeffco weighs another jail expansion (Colorado)
• Deal to help mentally ill prisoners (New York)
• Court rules in favor of inmates (Missouri)
• Sex offender policy targeted (California)

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News: 4/17/2007 (PM)

• New tapes allegedly show guard, inmate (Texas)
• Inmate Found Dead, Sister Arrested (Oklahoma)
• Corrections sergeant indicted for striking, choking inmate (Florida)
• Prison bribery case nets new guilty pleas (Oregon)
• Missouri Department of Corrections disputes sex harassment claims
• Man gets 10-20 years in conspiracy to kill prison guard (Michigan)
• Execution room outrage imperils prisons project (California)
• Will Fate of Death Sentence Hang in the Balance, Again? (Kenya)
• ACC legislation hindering victim redress - lawyer (New Zealand)
• Christian parties clash over hanging (UK)
• ¢467m spent on prisons HIV/AIDS project (Ghana)
• Newspaper sues to see draft of new execution procedures (Tennesee)
• State plans to close one Ionia prison, re-open another (Michigan)

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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 (PM)

• 11 Jail Guards Are Indicted in 2 Beatings in Brooklyn (New York)
• TYC officials update lawmakers (Texas)
• Corrections officer sentenced for trying to smuggle heroin into prison (New York)
• 'Tactics backfiring' as jails try to curb radical Islam (UK)
• Court Cannot Interfere in Decision By Prisons Tribunal (Fiji)
• Prison officers angered at brawl claims (New Zealand)
• Eye to Eye - Corruption in our prisons (New Zealand)
• Indian prisoners in France may now serve term in India
• Old methods make criminals out of victims (Indonesia)
• Wall reconfirmed as corrections head (Rhode Island)
• Probation and Corrections Officials Tout Benefits of GPS (Missouri)
• County seeks expert advice on increasing jail's capacity (Missouri)

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Ministry Notes: 4/6/2007

• Ben and Kristy Blog » Ben in Jail on April Fools (Ukraine) - American missionary visits prison
• Prison program offers inmates valuable lesson in caring (Missouri)
• Prison & Jail Ministry pictures from Art Plum (Texas)
• Prison Ministry photos from House of Light Ministry (Romainia)

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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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