News: 5/31/2007

• Suicide Rates Drop in Calfornia State Prisons
• More teens kept in adult jails (Ohio)
• New director focuses on future of state's prisons (Iowa)
• Accommodations Being Made As Average Age of Prisoners Rise (New York)
• Counties strain to find room for criminals (Ohio)
• GOP report critical of inmate releases, open to changes (Michigan)
• The Big Question: Why are our prisons so overcrowded, and how can we tackle the crisis? (UK)
• Teens to stay in adult jails (Australia)
• Vacant buildings to become prisons (Malaysia)
• Children who stay with mothers in prisons hamper – Prison officer (Ghana)
• 2 prisons plan to expand (Oklahoma)
• Camden wants prisons gone from downtown (New Jersey)

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