News: 5/16/2007

• New law aims to create balance in prison-release placement (Washington)
• Escapes prompt review of rules (Michigan)
• Feds looking to put prisoners in understaffed regional jails (Tennesee)
• Fresh probe into Shaik's 'preferential treatment' (South Africa)
• Booth to head new prisons commission (UK)
• Province to expand prisons (Canada)
• Police cells still used as jails (UK)
• Nigeria frees elderly prisoners before power shift (Nigeria)
• State Contracts to Put Inmates in Two Bridges (Nebraska)
• Revised jail budget tops $11 million mark (Kansas)
• Bill allowing early release of county inmates progresses (Michigan)

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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: 5/3/2007 (PM)

• Arizona Corrections Dept. reveals New Castle findings (Indiana)
• Governor Seeks Solution to Overcrowded Prisons (Nevada)
• Schwarzenegger signs bill to relieve prison crowding (California)
• State to release 2000 fewer prisoners than planned (Michigan)
• Prisons busting out in Delaware
• NIC: Jail conditions ‘awful' (Wisconsin)
• Inmate hangs himself in jail (New York)
• 12000 foreigners in UK jails
• Restorative justice schemes backed (UK)
• Legal Aids Council saves two prison inmates (Nigeria)
• Raising the bar for inmates (Massachusetts)

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News: 5/3/2007 (AM)

• Two federal judges hold key to California prison reform (California)
• Referee to make recommendation on inmate case (Oklahoma)
• Prison officer charged with murdering inmate (Guyana)
• £1M-A-DAY JAILS SCANDAL (UK)
• Inquest into boy's suicide hears of overcrowding at secure unit (UK)
• Drugs in prison on the increase (UK)
• Campaigners optimistic over plans for women in prison (UK)
• McDowell addresses Prison Officers conference in Sligo (Ireland)
• Nigeria: Legal Aid Boss Decries Prison Congestion
• Inmates on hunger in Gobustan jail can be held accountable (Azerbaijan)
• Juvenile facility runs out of room (Wyoming)
• Counties board 46 state prison system inmates (Maine)
• SAFETY IN PRISONS (New Jersey)
• Prison health committee bill heads to House (Maryland)
• Mendota to get $115m to finish federal prison (California)
• Prison program makes good on training dogs for adoption (Colorado)
• Corrections Corporation of America Announces 2007 First Quarter Financial Results
• Prison will need help with funding (Mississippi)

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News:5/1/2007 (PM)

• Prison inmate found hanged (Pennsylvania)
• Senator Tries To Halt Execution (Nebraska)
• Tennessee Governor Resumes Executions Following Review
• TYC abuse lingered after revelation (Texas)
• Patrick aide says state jails overcrowded, conditions a 'travesty' (Massachusetts)
• State prison reform urged (Pennsylvania)
• Ex-warden wins lawsuit against Corrections Department officials (South Carolina)
• Overflowing prisons set to explode (New Zealand)
• Punjab CM wants jails to be schools for reform (India)
• Nigerian Prisons Service and an NGO set up After Care Centre
• La Tuna Celebrates 75th Year (US Federal)
• Jail aims to eliminate ‘blind spots’ (Pennsylvania)
• Home Sweet Home (Florida)
• Former Fayette County prison official must repay $6000 (Pennsylvania)
• Collier sheriff requests 6 percent budget increase (Florida)

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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: 4/19/07 (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: 4/16/2007 (AM)

• Texas Prisons Have High Percentage of Unfilled Guard Jobs
• Texas Youth Commission Prisons Under Reported Abuse
• Guard pact could bedevil prison-relief negotiations (California)
• Governor to present pact offer to state prison guards (California)
• No end for jammed prisons (Michigan)
• Prison guards at jeopardy as overcrowding worsens (Maine)
• Hope Held Out for Death Row Inmates (Nigeria)
• Two men hijack helicopter to break man out of prison (Belgium)
• Drugs, bribe offers, staff in fear ... life at Rye Hill jail (UK)
• Call for sentencing policy review (UK)
• Tories in vow for tougher sentencing (UK)
• Fewer reports of sexual abuse in prisons, says (Jamaica)
• Athens on inmate transfers to home countries (Greece)
• Conditions vary widely for U.S. prisoners in Japan
• Everyday Heroes (North Carolina)
• Painting in prison (District of Columbia)

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